Foreigners in Japan
DATES December 06, 1972 through January 28, 1973
ORGANIZING DEPARTMENT
Asian Art
COLLECTIONS
Asian Art
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November 28, 1972
A colorful exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints, FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN, focusing on Yokohama from 1860-1863, opens at The Brooklyn Museum on December 6. Consisting of more than 100 prints assembled by the Philadelphia Museum of Art where the exhibition originated last spring, FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN will be on view in the Print Galleries of The Brooklyn Museum through January 28. Admission is free.
The Yokohama prints shown in FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN documented the opening of Japan to world trade as a result of Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s expedition to Japan in 1853. By 1860, the small secluded seaport of Yokohama had been transformed into a bustling, bawdy trade center inundated by waves of Dutch, German, French and American 'barbarians.'
FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN offers a fascinating record of the exotic 'foreigners' and their customs as portrayed by the Japanese. While some were drawn from personal observation, others must be credited to the artists’ lively imagination. For example, the print entitled "American Woman on Horseback in the Snow" by Hiroshige II portrays an almond-eyed beauty reining in a prancing horse, the plumes of her feathered headdress waving in the breeze.
In his introduction to the catalogue for FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN, Kneeland McNulty, curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, who organized the exhibition, notes that "… By 1861, numbers of colorful woodcuts appeared purporting to be 'true likenesses' of what were variously termed 'red hairs' (originating from descriptions of Dutchmen), the 'barbarians' and the 'foreigners'. Their exotic clothes, their custom of sitting in chairs, their manner of riding horses and smoking cigars, their amusements, and their pets were documented."
The Japanese woodcuts will be augmented by ceramics from The Brooklyn Museum’s Oriental collection as well as a superb 18th century plate signed by Shiba Kokan and dated 1797 on loan from Dr. Roger Gerry.
The extensively illustrated catalogue for FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN will be on sale at the Museum Bookshop for $2.95 or may be ordered by mail for an additional 50¢ to cover postage and handling.
Special Gallery Talks on FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN have been scheduled by the Museum’s Education Department:
"FOREIGNERS IN JAPANESE PRINTS” in the Print Galleries
Sunday, Dec. 17 1:00 P.M. Edward Brohel
Thursday, Dec. 28 1:15 P.M. Amy Poster
Wednesday, Jan. 10 1:15 P.M. Linda Sweet
Saturday, Jan. 13 1:15 P.M. Linda Sweet
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1971 - 1988. 1972, 106-107
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October 10, 1972
18TH NATIONAL PRINT EXHIBITION
NOVEMBER 22 - FEBRUARY 4
The eighteenth in the series of National Print Exhibitions presented biennially by The Brooklyn Museum follows the tradition of the past by bringing together work by talented beginning professionals with that of their already accomplished colleagues.
Included in the 120 prints in this exhibition are works by such artists as Frank Stella; Jasper Johns; Wayne Thiebaud; Nathan Oliveira; Joe Goode; and Edward Ruscha. Etchings, monotypes, lithographs, and examples of experimental mixed media are among the varieties of technique on exhibition.
The 18TH NATIONAL PRINT EXHIBITION will be held in the Robert E. Blum Gallery on the first floor from November 22,1972 to February 4, 1973. For the first time, it will then travel to the Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum, in San Francisco, California.
FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN
December 6 - January 28
An exhibition of wood block prints by Japanese artists in Yokohama after the opening of the port to foreign trade (1860-1863), FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN will open at The Brooklyn Museum on December 6. It will consist of approximately 100 prints, assembled by the Philadelphia Museum of Art where the exhibition originated last spring.
The exhibition offers a fascinating record of the exotic "foreigner" and their customs as portrayed by the Japanese artists of the period whose work displays the lively curiousity with which they viewed the visiting “barbarians.”
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1971 - 1988. 1972, 073.
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