January 24–May 10, 2009
Gallery 107 Overview: Full-color prints and nishiki-e, or brocade pictures, make up the majority of the Japanese woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world. This exhibition, however, explores the creativity involved in the lack of color in Japanese prints from the early period of ukiyo-e in the 17th century up to the present day.
Utagawa Hiroshige. Evening Snow at Asukayama (Asukayama bosetsu), from the series "Eight Views in the Neighborhood of Edo (Edo kinko hakkei no uchi)". c. 1838. Clarence Buckingham Collection. |
