One Whale Makes Seven Shores Prosperous
On view through June 26, 2022
New Bedford Art Museum
New Bedford, Massachusetts
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In this exhibition from the New Bedford Free Public Library’s art curator, Allie Copeland, we get a new look at whaling from a Japanese perspective. Beginning in the 18th century, feudal lords who oversaw whaling efforts commissioned emakimono, or picture scroll, to illustrate whale hunting methods as well as anatomically describe the known species of whales.
[Image courtesy New Bedford Art Museum]
