Anne Nishimura Morse

Anne Nishimura Morse is the William and Helen Pounds Senior Curator of Japanese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During her more than thirty-year tenure at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nishimura Morse spearheaded the fourteen-year project to re-catalogue the holdings of paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts and has organized numerous critically-acclaimed exhibitions both here in Boston and in Japan, including Art of the Japanese Postcard, Drama and Desire, and Double Impact: Arts of the Meiji Era. Her most recent exhibition project has been In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3-11, which is presently on view in Houston. She currently serves as the co-chair of a committee that advises the US and Japanese governments on the arts. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she received her Master's degree from Harvard University in Regional Studies East Asia and Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard. She has been a visiting lecturer at Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, and Harvard University, and is currently the Cal French Distinguished Visiting Professor of Japanese Art at the University of Michigan.