"In Style: Japanese Prints of the 18th and 19th Centuries "
2000-10-07 until 2001-01-07
Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma, WA, USA United States of America

The Tacoma Art Museums Japanese woodblock print collection consists of about 350 prints and provides a general survey of the Japanese woodblock print history dating from 1600s to mid-1800s. This collection is the second largest in the Northwest and was donated to the Museum between 1964 and 1984.

In Style features a selection of fifty Japanese woodblock prints dating from the 18th and 19th Centuries and are grouped into themes: Actors and Popular Theater, Courtesans and the Licensed Quarter, Heroes of History and Legend, Subjects from Literature, and Views of Nature and Famous Sites. The collection is largely the gift of a single collector, Mrs. Constance R. Lyon. Curated by Bill Rathbun.

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