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J.J. Lankes (1884-1960): Woodcuts Of Rural America, University Of Richmond Museums
J.J. Lankes (1884-1960): Woodcuts Of Rural America, University Of Richmond Museums
Exhibition Brochures
J.J. Lankes (1884-1960): Woodcuts of Rural America
1994
Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond Museums
Introduction
In 1917, while working at the Newton Arms Company factory in Buffalo, New York, Julius John (J. J.) Lankes created his first woodcut. His only implements were a graver, used to score rifle stocks, and a block of apple wood he had cut from a fallen tree. The experiment proved a turning point in the life of the thirty-one-year-old laborer, draftsman, and erstwhile art student. Rapidly mastering the difficult white on black woodcutting technique, he went on to produce some 1,300 designs over the …
Ukiyo-E: Japanese Prints Of The Floating World, University Of Richmond Museums
Ukiyo-E: Japanese Prints Of The Floating World, University Of Richmond Museums
Exhibition Brochures
Ukiyo-e: Japanese Prints of the Floating World
March 3 to April 17, 1994
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction
This ukiyo-e exhibition reveals the tantalizing range of images in Japanese prints of the floating world. A seventeenth-century Japanese writer described that world as: "singing songs, drinking wine, and diverting ourselves just in floating, floating ... like a gourd with the river current." Reflecting a sense of the world as an ephemeral place of no lasting value, the floating world was an escape from the present into fantasy and pleasure. Hopefully, our exhibition will entice you to pursue your own escape into that …