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Ukiyo-e Images of the Floating World - Japanese Prints
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- Seattle Art Museum - 'Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints'
April 1 to July 4, 2010, at SAAM Tateuchi Galleries.
This exhibition brings together prints from the most renowned ukiyo-e artists of the 18th and 19th centuries—including Harunobu, Utamaro, Eishi and Hiroshige—along with Hokusai’s most beloved prints, Great Wave off Kanagawa and Red Fuji.
Drawn from the Mary and Allan Kollar Collection, a promised gift to the Seattle Art Museum on the occasion of its 75th Anniversary, this installation introduces the region to a remarkable collection of prints, all taken from early impressions and in excellent condition.
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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED:
Exhibition:
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE
Japanese Prints from the Honolulu Academy of Arts
Dulwich Picture Gallery
8 July - 27 September 2009
After his near-contemporary Hokusai, Hiroshige is the most famous master of the Japanese woodblock; he is renowned particularly for his 100 Famous Views of Edo [Tokyo]. The Honolulu Academy of Arts houses one of the most important collections of his work in the world. This remarkable show is curated by Gian Carlo Calza, Professor of East Asian Art History and Director of the International Hokusai Research Centre at the University of Venice, and has been organised by Arthemisia, Milan.
http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions/coming_soon/utagawa_hiroshige.aspx#non
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Kuniyoshi
From the Arthur R. Miller Collection
21 Mar—7 Jun 2009
Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition on one of the greatest Japanese print artists, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861). Featuring over 150 works, the exhibition presents Kuniyoshi as a master of imaginative design. It reveals the graphic power and beauty of his prints across an unprecedented range of subjects highlighting his ingenious use of the triptych format.
The majority of the exhibition has been drawn from the outstanding collection of Professor Arthur R. Miller which has recently been donated to the American Friends of the British Museum. This is the first major exhibition in the United Kingdom on Utagawa Kuniyoshi since 1961.
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/kuniyoshi/
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NEW REFERENCE BOOK - UTAMARO REVEALED
by Gina Collia-Suzuki
Kitagawa Utamaro is one of the most well-known and admired figures in the history of Japanese art, renowned throughout the world for his portraits of beautiful women. Unrivalled at the height of his career, he is recognised as having been the leading light of the Ukiyo-e School during its golden age, and his influence upon the work of Western artists has been beyond measure. He produced in the region of two thousand woodblock prints during his lifetime, approximately one third of which take their subjects from the licensed pleasure quarter of Edo, with the remainder being made up of images of various popular beauties, pairs of famous lovers, historical and mythical figures, domestic scenes, and the physiognomic studies for which he is best-known.
With ninety reproductions of the artist’s woodblock prints, designs grouped and discussed according to subject, and with illustrations of publishers’ marks, artist’s signatures, and the names of figures commonly inscribed upon his works, this reference guide provides the most comprehensive resource for identifying the subjects and themes portrayed in Utamaro’s prints to date.
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http://www.utamarorevealed.com