Japanese Prints

Collection context

Summary

Title:
Japanese Prints
Creators:
various
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Collection of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA. [Item credit line, if given]

Background

Scope and content:

The Grunwald Center's collection of 40,000 works on paper includes 950 prints by Japanese Edo and Meiji period artists. The Center acquired many of these prints in 1965 from the Estate of Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959). Artists represented in this impressive group include Kitagawa Utamaro, Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.

The following collection guide comprises a selection from the Center's archive of Japanese prints and is arranged chronologically by Japanese periods: Middle Edo (approximately 1704 to 1789), Late Edo (approximately 1789 to 1868) and Meiji (1868 to 1912). Descriptions of prints included in this guide are based on cataloguing completed for the Center by Roger S. Keyes in the 1980s.

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Edo (Japanese period)
Meiji

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Layna White
Date Prepared:
© 2003
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from DAMD 3.0 (FilemakerPro 5 Database) developed by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Date of source: 3/4/2003

Access and use

Restrictions:

Terms of access:

For publication information, please contact Susan Shin, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, schin@hammer.ucla.edu

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Collection of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA. [Item credit line, if given]

Location of this collection:
University of California, Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201, US
Contact:
(310) 443-7000