The printer's eye: Ukiyo-e from the Grabhorn Collection / Laura W. Allen, Melissa M. Rinne (editors). — SF: Asian Art Museum, 2013

Accession Number: LIB-2689.2021

Category: Books

Softcover, pictorial wrappers, pp.: 1-200, il.

Foreword: A treasure trove of ukiyo-e prints / Kobayashi Tadashi
The Grabhorn ukiyo-e collection at the Asian Art Museum / Melissa M. Rinne
Edwin Grabhorn : passionate printer and print collector / Julia Meech
Figures of humans and animals : some early Japanese color prints from the Grabhorn Collection / David Waterhouse.

Edwin Grabhorn (1889—1968), co-founder of the Grabhorn Press, Northern California's premier letterpress printer, was a pioneer American collector of Japanese prints. The Grabhorn prints in the collection of the Asian Art Museum comprise the upper echelons of the original collection. The collection includes a superb selection of early monochrome and hand-colored ukiyo-e prints by Sugimura Jihei, Torii Kiyonobu, Okumura Masanobu and others, from the seminal decades of the woodblock print production in the late 1600s and early 1700s.

Additional Information

Binding Original , Pictorial wrappers , Softcover
Collection Japanese prints and drawings , Library
Country USA
Language English
Media/Technique Paper
Period 21 AD , Early 21st century
Creation / Publishing year 2013
Size 30.5 x 23 cm
Subject Catalogues , Collections , Collectors and Collecting , Exhibition catalogues , Japan , Japanese art , Ukiyo-e , Woodblock printing
Type / Purpose Book , Reference book
Acquisition year 2021

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