Exhibitions: Current
Season Four of Seasons of Beauty: Yoshitoshi's Thirty-two Aspects of Daily Life
July 13 to October 31, 2010. Special Exhibition Gallery, Second Floor Lenora and Walter F. Brown Asian Art Wing
Taiso Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Strolling: The Appearance of an Upper Class Wife of the Meiji Era, 1888
Japan
Woodblock print on paper
On loan from Lenora and Walter F. Brown
Photography by Peggy Tenison
The fourth and final season of our popular, yearlong exhibition of Taiso Yoshitoshi’s (1839-1892), Seasons of Beauty: Thirty-two Aspects of Daily Life will be on view in the Special Exhibitions Gallery on the second floor of the Walter and Lenora F. Brown Asian Art Wing from July 13 to October 31. Like the previous three seasons, Season Four features prints depicting 19th century Japanese women engaged in daily activities. The final season includes the title page and the two most famous prints in the series: "Drowsy" and "Strolling".