Kaikodo Journal XXIX Spring 2013

Welcoming the Spring

Corresponding to the exhibition held between March 15 and April 16, 2013. 35 Chinese, Japanese and Korean paintings; 29 Chinese, Japanese and Korean objects (71 color plates). Preface by Howard Rogers. 200 pages.

Includes the essays:
Carol Conover:
    “Lilly Schloss (1922-2012)”
Amy and Bob Poster:
    “David Newman (1936-2012): Random Recollections”
Mary Ann Rogers:
    “Helmut Brinker (1939-2012)”
Hwang Yin:
    “Roderick Whitfield and His Technicolour Dreamcoat:
      Reflections on Fifty Years of Scholarship”

This issue of Kaikodo Journal includes three remembrances of friends who passed away in 2012. Amy and Bob Poster wrote a moving piece, Random Recollections, on their dear friend, the phenomenal David Newman, the London dealer known for his vast expertise in Japanese art and equally for his wit; Mary Ann Rogers presents her favorite personal recollections of the amazing Helmut Brinker—scholar, professor, curator and our most Zen of friends; Carol Conover gives a brief look at her life-long associate whom we can easily dub the Great Dame of Early Chinese Ceramic Mingqi, the wonderfully eccentric collector, Lilly Schloss. A further essay is devoted to an individual, Professor Roderick Whitfield, who lives happily and actively among us, still involved in all manner of scholarly and connoiusseurial activities, as well as other equally pressing enterprises, such as the tending of his and his wife’s extraordinary garden. His student Hwang Yin presents his career and accomplishments in her most lively and informative essay.