Berman and Stieglitz Galleries, ground floor
Main Building
This exhibition commemorates the bicentennial of the birth of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of the last great masters of the Japanese color woodcut in the nineteenth century. Drawn from public and private collections in Europe and the United States, the works in this exhibition present Kuniyoshi as a printmaker who embraced a broad range of subjects. Featured are some 100 prints as well as a selection of drawings and paintings. Among them are landscapes; images of actors, beautiful women, and sea animals; New Year's cards; and fan prints. Woodcuts showing legendary heroes from Japanese history in bristling battle scenes and other episodes of derring-do have special emphasis since Kuniyoshi himself made this subject famous with his popular prints.
Organizers
This exhibition has been organized by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, in collaboration with the Society for Japanese Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Itinerary
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands • January 30 - April 5, 1998
- Philadelphia Museum of Art • April 25 - June 28, 1998