One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the country was wrenched open in the 1850s, profoundly altered European ...

HERE: JAPANESE ART ALIGHTS IN CAPE ESTATE. If you’re not traveling to Japan this summer, you can still immerse yourself in ...

Hokusai plays with perspective—a technique still rare in Japanese printmaking at the time—and introduced Prussian blue, a pigment recently imported from Europe. This deep, almost electric blue ...

As it happens, Matisse’s lifelong fascination with, and indebtedness to, traditional Japanese printmaking is the focus of an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Maryland.

In the past ten years no art medium in the U.S. has had such a dazzling rise to popularity as the once-neglected art of printmaking. This week two major print annuals give gallerygoers a chance to ...