exhibitions
Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from
the Chazen Museum of Art Collection
May 6–August 14, 2016 | Pleasant T. Rowland Galleries
This survey of Japanese printmaking includes more than one hundred of the most famous works in the
Museum’s highly regarded collection, including early prints that are so light sensitive that they are on view only
once in a decade. Prints from the last half of the eighteenth century, the nineteenth, and twentieth centuries
show the mastery of the printmakers and how they transformed the medium in response to changing times.
RIGHT: Kawanabe Kyosai (Japanese, 1831–1889), Crows on Plum Branch, ca. 1885, color woodcut, 241 x 255 mm,
bequest of John H. Van Vleck, 1980.712
COVER: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1864), The Actor Sawamura Sojuro V as Kan Shojo, from an untitled series of
large-head portraits, 3/1860, color woodcut, 13 ¼ x 9 9/16 in., John H. Van Vleck Endowment Fund purchase, 2006.10