The first traveling exhibition of Japanese art ever displayed at the //umfa.utah.edu ... mid-19th century Japanese ink, gouache, paper, wood, silk and gold leaf by Kaiho Yusho II, 1818-1869.

The Idea of America in 19th-Century Japanese Prints continues at the Art Institute of Chicago (111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois) through September 15. We hope you enjoyed this article!

Posted in Art Hanging 19th-Century Japanese and Western Masters Side by Side by Emily Wilson November 19, 2015 November 18, 2015. Subscribe to our newsletter.

"Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art," comes to Seattle Art Museum from the Kobe City Museum, which specializes in Japanese art touched by Western contact. It was organized by ...

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 ...

An intriguing, as well as educational, look at Japanese art is currently on view in the Payne Hurd Gallery at the Allentown Art Museum. The exhibit, “Tales Often Told: Favorite Themes of Japa… ...

This 19th-century Japanese screen of the Floating World, at Harvard Art Museums, depicts Tokyo’s notorious pleasure district, but it’s likely all imagined.

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Beauty, serenity and the idealization of nature ...

The artists of 19th-century Japan loved painting their cats almost as much as today's cat owners love Instagramming theirs. A new exhibit celebrates this pre-Internet feline art.

For the French, who still determined Western aesthetics, Japan’s opening was fortuitous: They were ready for a new way of seeing. The neo-Classical perfectionism epitomized in the 19th century ...