Julie Nelson Davis

University of Pennsylvania

06/27/2021 - 08/08/2021

Julie Nelson Davis is a Clark Fellow and professor of modern East Asian art at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on Japanese prints, illustrated books, and paintings in the ukiyo-e style. Davis is author of Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty (2007 and 2021), Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market (2015), and Picturing the Floating World: Ukiyo-e in Context (2021), as well as numerous articles and essays. She is editor-in-chief for caa.reviews and guest curator for the forthcoming exhibition of the Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese illustrated books at the Penn Libraries (2022). Her project at the Clark, The Ghost in the Brush: Imitation, Homage, and Fabrication in Ukiyo-e Painting, is also supported by a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship.