Prints from college art collection featured on WGBH

Wheaton's Japanese woodblock prints were featured on WGBH's Greater Boston on May 23. The show highlighted Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) in Andover, Mass., where 49 of Wheaton's 100 Asian prints are undergoing conservation.

Susanne Gramly of NEDCC is working on preserving the Wheaton prints, which she called impressive. "There are many well-known Japanese artists in this collection with many wonderful colors," she said. "They are quite attractive."

The prints are an indispensable teaching tool in Professor Sean McPherson's art history classes, "Print Cultures of Early Modern Japan" and "Art in East Asia." McPherson emphasizes the importance of using tangible art in his classes. (More)