Nishimura Shigenaga — Chinese Lion, Peonies and Rock | Ukiyo-e Print

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Nishimura Shigenaga — Chinese Lion, Peonies and Rock | Ukiyo-e PrintNishimura Shigenaga (16971756) was one of the key early masters of the Edo period woodblock print a printmaker who worked in the period before Harunobu's colour prints and whose compositions laid the formal groundwork for the great flowering of ukiyo e. His actor prints and mythological subjects have the bold simplicity of the early tradition and a vigour that anticipates the later masters. Printed as a museum grade gicle on Hahnemhle fine art paper

and museum collections worldwide

His later pastels and paintings

Irises — transformed Western art and continue to set auction records over a century after his death

George Catlin (1796–1872) was an American painter and writer who devoted his career to documenting Native American cultures across North America

Islamic scholar

The United States Information Agency (USIA) produced some of the most elegant propaganda posters of the Cold War era

the Konstruktion series

produced the first Japanese woodblock print entirely conceived

Quranic manuscripts from the Abbasid

His prints are beloved for their humanity and directness

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Where Seurat was monumental and Signac was bold