Sherry Fowler


Sherry Fowler head shot
  • Professor
  • HISTORY OF ART

Contact Info

Office phone:
Spencer Museum of Art, room #200B

Biography

Sherry Fowler specializes in Japanese Buddhist art. Her interests include pre-modern sculpture, Edo and Meiji period Japanese temple prints (keidaizu), pilgrimage prints (ofuda), foreign interactions with Japanese art, issues of collecting, and ritual. She has written on the development of the imagery of the cult of the Six Kannon in Japan and Buddhist prints in the pilgrimage process. Her recent research project is on the relationship between dragons, water, and Buddhist temple bells in Japan.

Research

Research interests:

  • Japanese Buddhist art history especially sculpture, print, and bells