Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A stately white home outlined in black with columns, lattices, ornate ironwork, and a decorative frieze. A yellow sky with huge clouds and full, sienna-toned trees frame the home.

Old Munich, 1905

Gustave Baumann

A work made of porcelain with underglaze decoration and overglaze enamels.

Kutani-Style Sweets Tray, c. 1825

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Beneath Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannenbashi shita) from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print.

Tenno Temple, Osaka (Osaka Tennōji), from the series Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshu), 1927

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Pacific Ocean, Awa Province (Boshu Taikai), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshu)", 1925

Kawase Hasui

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Young Couple Under an Umbrella in the Snow, c. 1770

Isoda Koryusai

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Fidelity (Shin), from the series Five Cardinal Virtues, Edo period (1615–1868), 1767

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of hanging scroll; ink and color on silk.

Kobo Daishi (Kukai) as a Boy (Chigo Daishi), 15th century

A work made of color woodblock print; o-oban, benizuri-e.

Beauty Reading a Letter, c. 1758

Ishikawa Toyonobu

A work made of color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e.

The Actors Ichikawa Ebizo I as Miura Osuke, Ichikawa Danjuro lV as Okazaki Akushiro, and Nakamura Sukegoro I as Kato Arajiro in the play "Miura no Osuke Bumon no Kotobuki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1754, 1754

Torii Kiyohiro

A color woodblocok print of two women, the first looking at herself with two mirrors while the second women is tickling her foot with a stick from behind a screen

Tickling her foot, c. 1765/70

Suzuki Harunobu

Print rendered in visible uniform lines of a 2/3 bust view of a dark-skinned mature woman looking to her left in a wide brim hat, a safety pin securing her black jacket. Her face and neck is a rich brown hue, while the rest of the portrait is rendered in black and white.

Sharecropper, 1952, printed 1970

Elizabeth Catlett

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Arai: View of Ferryboats (Arai, watashibune no zu), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Poem by Bun'ya no Yasuhide, from the series "Modern Versions of the Six Immortal Poets (Imayo fuzoku rokkasen)", c. 1776/81

Isoda Koryusai

A work made of silk and gilt-paper strip; satin weave with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; silk cords.

Kesa, Early 19th century, Late Edo period (1789–1868)

A work made of color woodblock print (album sheet).

Blooming Plum Tree, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu), c. 1814

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Third Princess (Nyosan no Miya) in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Perfromed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771, c. 1771

Ippitsusai Buncho

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

No. 2: Chinese boys copying paintings and writing Japanese, from the series "Children Say 'This is Japan!' and Imitate the Games They See in Picturebooks (Yodo iu koitsu wa Nippon, ezoshi o mite yori sono gai ni asobu)", c. 1791

Torii Kiyonaga

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

The Jewel River of Plovers (Chidori no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers, c. 1767

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Akita Jonosuke in the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769, c. 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho

<<<24252627 >>>