Japanese Prints in Transition Member Preview Days
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Storm below the Mountain, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (detail), ca. 1830–1832. Color woodcut, 10 3⁄16 × 14 5⁄8 in. (25.9 × 37.1 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Patricia Brown McNamara, Jane Brown Dunaway, and Helen Brown Jarman in memory of Mary Wattis Brown, 64.47.17
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Book your ticket to visit the Legion of Honor and see Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World before it opens to the public. Tickets include entry to Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World as well as all permanent collection galleries at the Legion of Honor on the day of your visit.
Featuring selections from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts that haven’t been displayed for a more than a decade, Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World documents the late 19th-century shift from delicately colored ukiyo-e (floating world) woodcut prints of actors, courtesans, and scenic views to brightly colored images of Western architecture, technology (trains, steam-powered ships, telegraph lines), Victorian fashions and customs, and modern military warfare.
Ticket info
- Member preview days for Japanese Prints in Transition are April 4 and 5, 2024.
- Japanese Prints in Transition is on view at the Legion of Honor April 6, 2024 through August 8, 2024.
Contact info
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membership@famsf.org
415.750.3636
Sponsors
This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Presenting Sponsor
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn
Significant Support
Carrick and Andy McLaughlin
W.L.S. Spencer Foundation
Generous Support
Paul A. Violich
Additional support is provided by Alexandria and Dwight Ashdown, Sandra and Paul Bessières, Cathy and Howard Moreland, and The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation.
