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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Administrative Information
  • Scope and Content
  • Indexing Term(s)

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Japanese Prints
    Creator-Materials: various
    Repository: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
    Los Angeles, CA 90024
    Language: English.

    Administrative Information

    Publication Rights

    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]

    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.

    Indexing Term(s)

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Edo (Japanese period)

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Meiji