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Monday, 23 February 2015 10:54

The Clark Art Institute Receives Major Gift of Japanese Woodblock Prints

Hirosige's 'Drum bridge at Meguro and Sunset Hill,' 1854. Hirosige's 'Drum bridge at Meguro and Sunset Hill,' 1854. Wikipedia

The Clark Art Institute has received sixty-three Japanese color woodblock prints, dating from 1832 to 1971, from long-time Clark docent Adele Rodbell. The Rodbell Family Collection includes landscape prints spanning from the late ukiyo-e through the shin hanga and sōsaku hanga movements of the 1920s and ‘30s to postwar Japan.

Among the works are a Hokusai landscape, a number of works from Hiroshige’s series “100 Famous Views of Edo,” and the Zen architecture prints of Saitō.

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