Sunday, February 9, 2025

East Meets West at the TMA

If you’ve been to the Toledo Museum of Art recently you certainly noticed a distinct Asian theme. Inspired by the dazzling encore showing of Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints currently gracing the walls of the Canaday Gallery, the satellite exhibit, Ebb & Flow: Cross-Cultural Prints, continues to map the progression of the shin hanga (new print) movement into the sosaku  (creative) and kinai (modern contemporary) movements of Japanese prints. More than one hundred works depict how the exchange of ideas between East and West since 1900 influenced contemporary woodblock printmaking into the 20th century.

On view in the Works on Paper Gallery through Sunday, January 5. Free. Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St. 419-255-8000. toledomuseum.org

If you’ve been to the Toledo Museum of Art recently you certainly noticed a distinct Asian theme. Inspired by the dazzling encore showing of Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints currently gracing the walls of the Canaday Gallery, the satellite exhibit, Ebb & Flow: Cross-Cultural Prints, continues to map the progression of the shin hanga (new print) movement into the sosaku  (creative) and kinai (modern contemporary) movements of Japanese prints. More than one hundred works depict how the exchange of ideas between East and West since 1900 influenced contemporary woodblock printmaking into the 20th century.

On view in the Works on Paper Gallery through Sunday, January 5. Free. Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St. 419-255-8000. toledomuseum.org

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