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The Floating World and the Flat One

Edo prints beside the Europeans who copied them

Ukiyo-e reached Paris as packing paper and left as a way of composing. This show puts the prints and the paintings on the same wall and lets the borrowing be obvious.

dates 15 January 2027 – 4 April 2027works 7halls 3status announced

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A color woodblock print of a large crashing wave, looms over two narrow boats full of people. Mt Fuji in the background. There is a faint peach colored sky.

Opening the exhibition Katsushika Hokusai Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" 1830/33 · Color woodblock print; oban
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

Color print depicting two women as they dry and bundle fabric. — Suzuki Harunobu *Evening Snow on a Floss Shaper (Nurioke no bosetsu), from the series "Eight Views of the Parlor (Zashiki hakkei)"* c. 1766 · Color woodblock print; chuban
Japan · 28.7 × 21.6 cm
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

Color print of Japanese man with sword making a funny face. — Tōshūsai Sharaku *The actor Bando Mitsugoro II as Ishii Genzo* 1794 · Color woodblock print; oban
Japan · 37.5 × 24.7 cm
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

Painting of four women with blue shawls walking near red fence. — Paul Gauguin *Arlésiennes (Mistral)* 1888 · Oil on jute canvas
France · 73 × 92 cm
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

A heronǳ silhouette sits amongst the brush in a golden hued forest. — George Inness *The Home of the Heron* 1893 · Oil on canvas
Florida · 76.2 × 115.2 cm
Edward B. Butler Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

Large painting, standing man blue turtleneck, sitting woman with white collar. — Amedeo Modigliani *Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz* 1916 · Oil on canvas
Italy · 81.3 × 54.3 cm
Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

Very dark painting of a light-skinned, mostly clean-shaven young man in dark suit and dark full-length coat, holding a rolled-up paper and gloves. — James McNeill Whistler *Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy* 1894 · Oil on canvas
Paris · 210.7 × 93.3 cm
Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

Every work shown here is in the public domain and comes from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, published under its Open Access programme (CC0). Artist, title, date, medium and the museum’s own credit line are printed under each plate, and every plate links to the object record in Chicago. EPRIS Museum claims no rights in these images.

Works in this exhibition are drawn from Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Ukiyo-e.