Kagedo Japanese Art

Specialties

High end Japanese Art Dealers primarily working with collectors and museums assembling collections of Japanese Art Specialties include late 19^th and 20^th century art including Meiji metalwork, enamels, Taisho and Showa Nihonga paintings, Art Deco and Post War 50’s and 60’s material. We are moving to Orcas Island and the gallery is closed in Seattle until the construction is finished on Orcas and we are planning on being in the new space at the end of the first quarter of 2014. After moving to the island we will be open by appointment only.

History

Established in 1983.

Kagedo was formed in 1983 as a collaborative effort between Jeffery Cline and William Knospe. We have helped assemble major private collections of basketry, classical ceramics, Art Deco and modernism, 20^th century lacquers, Mingei or Japanese folk art, Ainu and other folk textiles, Imperial Japanese art in the areas of metalwork and cloisonné, as well as Nihonga painting.

Many of our pieces now reside in the permanent collections of major public institutions, including: the Seattle Art Museum, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Denver Art Museum, the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Galleries, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, the Morikami Museum of Japanese Culture, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Sannenzaka Art Museum.

We have published seven folio catalogues that have explored groundbreaking areas of Japanese Art.

Meet the Business Owner

Jeff C.

Business Owner

Jeff Studied Japanese Art and Language at the University of Washington after spending 1973 on a student exchange program in Japan. After graduating he went on to study the Japanese Art business under the direction of two well known Japanese Art dealers and later formed Kagedo Japanese Art with Bill Knospe in 1983.