The prints were snatched away before the ink on them was dry, and were sold all over the city. Publishers did anything and everything to get ahead of others.

In the 1820s, the ink of the woodblock prints and that of tattoos on skin began to influence one another. They shared the popular imagery of dragons, demons and monsters, as well as allusions to ...

JAPANESE ART AT UMFA Two exhibitions of Japanese art: “Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints,” organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and “Beyond the Divide: Merchant ...

Charleston artist Liz Roberts uses real fish to create colorful one-of-a-kind prints. Known as Fish Print Girl, Roberts puts ...

For centuries, fishermen in Japan have been creating ink prints of fish and sea species in a practice known as Gyotaku (魚拓) or “fish rubbing” in English. Originally used to record catches ...

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper.© Colleen J. Dugan/Sekino Jun’ichirō/National Museum of Asian Art/Atelier Sekino Kawakami Sumio, “Night of Ginza From Recollections of Tokyo,” 1945.

Fish out of water don’t last long. But prints of their dazzling scales, pressed into pools of ink, can preserve the aquatic creatures’ forms for centuries. Since the mid-19th century, Japanese ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...

Put together by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, it is derived from the estate of businessman John Chandler Bancroft, which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum in 1901.

Select prints will be on view as part of this summer’s “Van Gogh and Nature” exhibition. The Clark Art Institute, 225 South St., Williamstown, Massachusetts; clarkart.edu ...

In the 1820s, the ink of the woodblock prints and that of tattoos on skin began to influence one another. They shared the popular imagery of dragons, demons and monsters, as well as allusions to ...