Each season, New York City straphangers are invited to engage with the work of SVA artists via the College’s long-running ...

Historical Edo & Ukiyo-e Exhibit: With a layout inspired by a woodblock print, the first exhibit provides context to the featured art collection, focusing on the lives of Hokusai, Hiroshige and ...

"Hokusai & Ukiyo-e" Invites Visitors to Journey Back in Time Through an Art Collection Making Its U.S. Debut and Interactive Experiences Including an Immersive Manga & Anime Exhibit, Silk & Samurai ...

There also are 15 works by Utagawa Hiroshige, particularly known for the “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” series, along with works by 15 done by their contemporaries and 17 handcrafted artifacts.

'Hokusai and Ukiyo-e' exhibit at Cleve Carney Museum of Art dives into Japan's Edo period Centered on the extraordinary appeal of “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” by Katsushika Hokusai, this ...

Hiroshige, from "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" (1856-59. Public domain) To answer that question, you have to think about the way we conceptualize colour in the world.

Hiroshige was born Andō Tokutarō in Edo, now Tokyo, in 1797 to a samurai family. He was orphaned by the age of 12, whereupon he inherited his father’s role as a fire warden for Edo Castle.

Hiroshige winnows away all unpleasantness, so that we can believe the world is an elegant place Hiroshige died in 1858; a decade later, Edo Japan had given way to Meiji rule and radical modernisation ...

Born into "a low-ranking samurai family" in Edo (now Tokyo), Hiroshige became renowned for his "lyrical and atmospheric colour-woodblock prints".

Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most popular print artists during the Edo period and this new exhibition shows how his visual language helped shape the arts ...