Worcester, MA.- The Worcester Art Museum is pleased to present “Leisure, pleasure and the Debut of the Modern French Woman”, a selection of prints and drawings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that illustrate an overall shift in the depi…
The Weatherspooon Art Museum Shows Edo Period Japanese Actor Prints
Greensboro, NC.- The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is pleased to present the exhibition “Encore! Japanese Actor Prints from the Permanent Collection”. The show examines the subject of Kabuki and Noh actor p…
Indeterminate Stillness: Berkeley Art Museum Exhibition Looks at James McNeill Whistler
BERKELEY, CA.- James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), the expatriate American artist, was a prolific and innovative painter, watercolorist, and printmaker. Throughout his lively career Whistler was known as a discerning collector of Japanese prints a…
Indeterminate Stillness: Berkeley Art Museum Exhibition Looks at James McNeill Whistler
BERKELEY, CA.- James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), the expatriate American artist, was a prolific and innovative painter, watercolorist, and printmaker. Throughout his lively career Whistler was known as a discerning collector of Japanese prints a…
Art Institute of Chicago Celebrates Japanese Picture Calendars in Exhibition
CHICAGO, IL.- In celebration of the New Year and new calendars to be filled, this exhibition brings together approximately 40 egoyomi, the unique Japanese prints that cleverly incorporated calendar markings into their designs. Until 1873, the Japanese …
Saint Louis Art Museum Accepts Major Gift of Japanese Prints from Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announced today that Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt have generously donated their entire collection of 1,357 Japanese prints and related works of art amassed over the past two decades. In addition to the cou…
Saint Louis Art Museum Accepts Major Gift of Japanese Prints from Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announced today that Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt have generously donated their entire collection of 1,357 Japanese prints and related works of art amassed over the past two decades. In addition to the cou…
Japanese Woodblock Prints to Fill the Galleries…Twice at Tacoma Art Museum
TACOMA; WA.- Tacoma Art Museum is sharing one of Japan’s most popular art forms with the Northwest in their new exhibition Edo to Tacoma: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection, which runs September 4, 2010 through February 13, 2011 (the ex…
Japanese Fascination with the West is Explored in Exhibition of Prints
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Isolated by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate from the outside world, Japanese citizens were naturally curious about the Westerners who began to arrive on their shores following Commodore Matthew Perry’s historic voyages to Japan in…
Japanese Fascination with the West is Explored in Exhibition of 19th-Century Yokohama Prints
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Isolated by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate from the outside world, Japanese citizens were naturally curious about the Westerners who began to arrive on their shores following Commodore Matthew Perry’s historic voyages to Japan in…