Beyond the Floating World: Japanese Prints in the 20th Century | Spencer Museum of Art

Spencer Museum of Art

Info for

my portfolio logout

Exhibition

Image not available

Beyond the Floating World: Japanese Prints in the 20th Century

Sarah Burt, curator

White Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

An exhibition of major twentieth-century Japanese printmakers that displayed the rich diversity of the modern Japanese print. The show traced two parallel printmaking movements, shin hanga or the New Print movement and sosaku hanga, or the Creative Print movement, that sought to reinterpret the Japanese print and take it in new directions. The prints came from the Spencer, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and several Kansas City collectors. The show was organized by Sarah Burt, art history graduate student and intern in the registrar's office.

Works of art

Erich Heckel (1883–1970), Liegende (Reclining figure)

Sekino Junichirō (1914–1988), Nissaka (The New Tokaido)

Hiratsuka Unichi (1895–1997), Ikarugadera Temple in Early Autumn

Tanaka Ryōhei (1933–1999), Ruined Farm House #4 (Wall #4)

Maki Haku (1924–2000), Wan-16(B)

Kawase Hasui (1883–1957), Nikko futatsudo (Two Temple Buildings at Nikko)

Hagiwara Hideo (1913–2007), Memories of the East

Iwami Reika (1927–2020), Waxing Moon and Ocean "B"

Takahashi Rikio (1917–1999), The Letter (From Kyoto)

Kawase Hasui (1883–1957), Moon at Magome

Shinoda Tōkō (1913–2021), For Thee-N

Takahashi Shōtei (1871–1945), Night Rain at Kiritoshi

Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950), Calm Wind

Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950), Misty Day in Nikkō

Ohara Shōson (1877–1945), Herons in Snow

Kasamatsu Shirō (1898–1992), Kusate Onna (Women Harvesting Rice)

Itō Sōzan (1884–?), Bird on maple branch

Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950), Suzukawa [Mt.Fuji from the Suzu River]

Kawase Hasui (1883–1957), Senzoku no Ike (Snow on Senzoku Pond)