Name
MCKELWAY, Matthew
Position and Affiliated Institution
Columbia University, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Takeo and Itsuko Atsumi Professor of Japanese Art
Degree
Ph.D.
Education and Academic Employment
| 2007-present | Professor, Columbia University |
| 1999‐2006 | Assistant Professor, New York University |
| 1999 | Columbia University, Ph.D. |
| 1989 | Amherst College, A.B. |
Research Topic
History of Japanese Art
Fields of Research Interests
Medieval-Early Modern Japanese Painting; genre painting; urban representation; Kano-school painting; fan painting; painting in 18th century Kyoto; history of architecture; etc.
Academic Publications
- Rosetsu: Ferocious Brush (2018) (co-authored with Khanh Trinh)
- “Rosetsu’s Red Cliffs: Medium and Meaning in Late Edo-Period Painting,” (in The Artist in Edo, National Gallery of Art, 2018)
- “Eitoku’s Doves,” (in Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan, Princeton, 2017)
- Silver Wind: The Arts of Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828) (2012)
- Chinese Romance from a Japanese Brush (2009) (co-authored with Shane McCausland)
- Capitalscapes: Folding Screens and Political Imagination in Medieval Kyoto (2006)
Affiliated Academic Organizations
- Japan Art History Forum
- Japanese Art Society of America
Awards
2017 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
