Expanding Frontiers: The Jack and Susy Wadsworth Collection of Postwar Japanese Prints

Eugene, Oregon: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 2015. Paperback. NF. Glossy, color-illus. wraps; white lettering on turquoise spine. French flaps. 112 pp. with vivid color images throughout. In 2012, Jack and Susy Wadsworth donated 157 modern and contemporary Japanese prints to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon. This remarkable collection, featuring woodblocks, intaglios, lithographs, screenprints, and mixed-media works by seventy-eight Japanese and Western artists, significantly augments the museum's capacity to teach about Japanese graphic art from the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-centuries. The collection showcases contemporary Japanese artists not just as inheritors of the much-celebrated Edo-period (1615-1868) woodblock tradition, but as sophisticated international masters of various printmaking techniques. A stunning, stellar catalogue! Text in English; artists' names also in Japanese; with occasional Japanese terms transliterated into Latin script.