Carrère Gallery

The Carrère Gallery is named after the architectural firm Carrère and Hastings which built the Forbes building.

Currently Featuring in the Carrère and Hastings Gallery...
Through October 21, 2008

Good Things in Small Packages:
Japanese Children's Kimonos 1860 - 1960

Boy’s Padded Haori, c.1930 - 1940 Cotton; waste silk padding

This exhibition, guest curated by Valerie Foley, explores vintage Japanese children's wear as historical and cultural artifacts. Each piece reveals something about childhood in traditional and transitional Japan: popular patterns and their meanings, favorite fairy tales, annual celebrations, superstitions, material culture, religion, the economy, politics, and outside influences as Japan opened up to the rest of the world.