Tuesday - Sunday, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday evenings, 7 to 8 p.m.
Free Admission
The Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
March 3 – April 16, 2011
This exhibition of 50 Edo period (1603-1868) prints reveals an intimate history of Japanese print collecting in the South in the early 20th century. With the help of internationally know ukiyo-e print expert Frederick Gookin, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art founder Wallace B. Rogers created a superb collection in the 1920’s. Gookin’s expertise and Rogers’s funding yielded a collection rich in the works of Hiroshige, and expansive enough to include Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, and other important printmakers. The prints encompass all of the ukiyo-e subjects: beautiful women, actors and the theater, landscapes, narrative scenes, and decorative themes.
This exhibition of 50 Edo period (1603-1868) prints reveals an intimate history of Japanese print collecting in the South in the early 20th century. With the help of internationally know ukiyo-e print expert Frederick Gookin, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art founder Wallace B. Rogers created a superb collection in the 1920’s. Gookin’s expertise and Rogers’s funding yielded a collection rich in the works of Hiroshige, and expansive enough to include Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, and other important printmakers. The prints encompass all of the ukiyo-e subjects: beautiful women, actors and the theater, landscapes, narrative scenes, and decorative themes.
The Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi Tour Management by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, Missouri (thanks St. John's site)
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