A new exhibition dedicated to Hiroshige at the British Museum introduces visitors to the full depth and complexity of his ...

One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...

“In Japan, the market for prints was never very large,” Volk says, adding that when Japanese people did buy prints, those pieces tended to be more conventional. “Onchi, because of these new ...

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 ...

Their bold, modernistic woodblocks, etchings and lithographs pushed the boundaries of Japan’s long—and male-dominated—printmaking tradition. Artists in the postwar years had been forming ...

The couple accrued woodblock prints, paintings, sculptures – including those by Hiroshige, Hokusai, Kunisada, Utamaro, Yoshitoshi and other important Japanese printmakers. It led to the ...

Japanese printmaking, with its rich history and refined aesthetics, has long been a cornerstone of the nation’s visual culture. Originating as a tool for religious devotion and later blossoming ...

The British Museum’s exhibition on the Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) will include Van Gogh’s own copy of a print which he used in a painting in homage. Hiroshige ...