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Exhibition Detail Texture & Tradition: Japanese Woven Bamboo Denver Art Museum 100 W 14th Ave Denver, CO 80204 September 4th, 2011 - July 29th, 2012
	Hayakawa Shokosai V, Tray with Open Weave, Japan; Heisei period, 1997, Bamboo © Courtesy of the artist & Denver Art Museum

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Focusing on Japanese woven bamboo, over 70 beautiful pieces will be displayed in this installation, including baskets, screens, trays, containers, accessories, hand warmers, and a chair. Among the works on view are pieces by basket makers who have been designated Living National Treasures. Texture and Tradition: Japanese Woven Bamboo highlights works from the Lutz Bamboo Collection and gifts from Paul M. Hoff III and Hazel W. Hoff in memory of Paul M. Hoff Jr.

Texture and Tradition is located in the Walter + Mona Lutz Gallery, a gallery on the level 5 of the North Building designated for bamboo works from China, Japan, and Korea.