Looking Modern: Gender in Japanese Art, 1890–2011
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Looking Modern: Gender in Japanese Art, 1890–2011
Kris Ercums, curator
Vidhita Raina, curator
Vidhita Raina, curator
Gallery 408, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
This exhibition presents a transforming Japan that negotiates tradition and modernity, and femininity and masculinity.
Exhibition images
Works of art

Mitsuyu Chihagi (active early 1900s)
mid 1930s, Showa period (1926–1989)

Matsumoto Masao (1900–1964)
circa 1920s, Taisho period (1912–1926)

circa 1890

circa 1890

circa 1890

circa 1890

Kim In-seung (1910–2001)
1941

Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802)
circa 1791