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Mary Cassatt is an American impressionist known for her radical take on art with feminine subjects. The exhibit called "Mary ...
One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the country was wrenched open in the 1850s, profoundly altered European ...
When you first see a Japanese Bobtail, it’s hard not to smile. There’s something about that iconic little pom-pom tail—like ...
Put together by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, it is derived from the estate of businessman John Chandler Bancroft, which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum in 1901.
French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20 th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...
Exploring Nature in Japanese Prints A new exhibition at Oregon’s Portland Art Museum shows how a cheap, popular art form produced enduring masterpieces Maki Haku, ‘Fuji san-12’ (1989).
Events Gaze at “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” at the MFA “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” features nearly 80 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, a great ukiyo-e master, and his contemporaries.
Samurai, Ghosts and Lovers: Yoshitoshi's Complete 100 Aspects of the Moon, is on view Feb. 22 - Sept. 13, 2020, at the Dayton Art Institute.
Making Japanese woodblock prints usually involves a team of people: The artist, who creates the design in black ink, on a very thin sheet of washi, traditional Japanese paper; the engraver, who ...
There’s an element of voyeurism in the Japanese art of ukiyo-e. ... Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print opens at the Geelong Gallery on May 18 and runs until July 28.
Van Gogh’s copy of the print of The Plum Garden at Kameido will be on display in the British Museum exhibition, on loan from Amsterdam. The Dutch artist’s own copies of Japanese prints are ...
See more than 35 Japanese prints — many on public view for the first time — at a new exhibition opening at the Worcester Art Museum called “Reflections of a Changing Japan: The Evolution of ...