The Print Generation exhibition tour

Please us for a tour of the exhibition The Print Generation, Thursday, April 24, 11:00 am at the National Museum of Asian Art (formerly the Freer|Sackler Gallery). The tour will be led by Lillian Wies, Gregory and Maria Henderson Curatorial Fellow in East Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums.

The tour will look at how a new generation of print artists broke from existing traditions in Japanese printmaking to find new modes of expression during the turbulent decades of the mid-twentieth century, employing innovative printing methods and creating artist networks that fueled this creative moment in Japanese printmaking.

The Print Generation presents a selection of creative prints that challenged the dominant narrative of what it meant to be an artist in twentieth-century Japan. Highlights from the Kenneth and Kiyo Hitch Collection and the Gerhard Pulverer Collection illustrate the development and evolution of the sōsaku hanga movement as well as the international reach of these artists and the depth of their relationships to each other. More information about the exhibition can be found here.

Registration for this event is limited to 20 WPC members and their guests.

Image Credit: Sekino Jun’ichirō (1914–1988), Portrait of Munakata Shikō, Japan, Showa era, 1967, woodblock print; Ink and color on paper, woodblock print; ink and color on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Purchase and partial gift of the Kenneth and Kiyo Hitch Collection from Kiyo Hitch with funds from the Mary Griggs Burke Endowment, S2019.3.1567