Contemporary Japanese Prints from the Oliver Statler Collection

13 July–28 August, 1977

This marks the first public exhibition of more than eighty prints from the Oliver Statler Collection of the Smart Museum of Art. This collection showcases fourteen of Japan’s most prominent contemporary printmakers including Hiratsuka Un’ichi, Saito Kiyoshi and Yamaguchi Gen. The prints were presented to Mr. Statler, a professor at the University of Hawaii, by the artists in 1976 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of his authoritative work, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn which documents the history of Japanese printmaking. 

Catalogue: Suzanne Arata, a doctoral student in Far Eastern Art.

Curator: Katharine L. Keefe, Curator of Collections
 

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