The early modern prints of Kawase Hasui and Ohara Shōson, two of the finest artists of the shin hanga, or “new prints,” movement, were significant to reviving Japan’s woodblock print industry after the devastating Kantō earthquake of 1923. Like Hasui’s...
His depictions of colorful confections made him famous, but Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920) has also applied his formidable talents to a range of other subjects. His "aerial" landscapes are highly realistic yet approach abstraction. His cityscapes,...
Inuit Art Cape Dorset Special Edition Wall Calendar: About 1,200 miles north of Toronto, the hamlet of Cape Dorset, Nunavut, is home to a multigenerational community of Inuit graphic artists. Their cooperatively owned printmaking studios have been in...
