Vincent van Gogh, “Portrait of Père Tanguy” (Autumn 1887), painting (all images courtesy Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and the Vincent van Gogh Foundation) The influence of Japanese woodblock prints on ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...

Time was when Japan’s cheap prints of almond-eyed prostitutes, grimacing kabuki actors and brawling porters were as popular as penny dreadfuls, and treated with no more regard. Few Japanese mourned ...

In an ordinary season, "Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism" at the Legion of Honor might have outshone everything else the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco offered. But this ...

Turns out she was like most visionaries – way ahead of her time. Thus began The Verne Collection. The couple accrued woodblock prints, paintings, sculptures – including those by Hiroshige, Hokusai, ...

Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Evening at Sado, 1938. Woodblock print. Photo, the Clark Kawase Hasui, "Late Autumn in Ichikawa," 1930. Color woodblock print. Photo, Clark Art ...

Also among familiar highlights in the Oberlin show are Utagawa Hiroshige’s famous images of a flowering plum tree under a blushing red sunset sky, and of peasants in conical straw hats crossing Ohashi ...