Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770–1900 - Dates: March
21, 2008 through June 15, 2008 - Collections: Asian Art -
Location: This exhibition is no longer on view in Robert E. Blum
Gallery, 1st Floor - Description: Utagawa: Masters of the
Japanese Print, 1770-1900. [03/14/2008 - 06/15/2008].
Installation view. - Citation: Brooklyn Museum Digital
Collections and Services. Records of the Department of Digital
Collections and Services. (DIG_E_2008_Utagawa) - Source: born
digital - Related Links: Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print,
1770–1900 Japanese artists have long celebrated the relationship
between teacher and student by comparing it to that of a father
and son. Young artists adopt new professional names that refer
to their teachers, and schools of artistic tradition can often
be understood as lineages in which each generation passes an
aesthetic legacy to the next. The Utagawa school was one of
Japan’s most prominent artist lineages, spanning more than one
hundred years and dominating the period’