Matt Brown      

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Matt Brown, born 1958, lives in New Hampshire in the countryside. He creates color woodblock prints using traditional Japanese methods, tools and materials. Subjects of the artist are nature - preferably from the New England states, home and family. Matt Brown has exhibited mainly in the New England states where his woodblock prints are available in many galleries and art centers.
Catalog Matt Brown

Ichiro Fukushima      Sosaku Hanga

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Ichiro Fukushima (1920-1975) was born in Kanagawa prefecture. He was represented in at least one Print Biennale (Krakow) and some other international exhibitions outside Japan. Ichiro Fukushima was a member of Nihon Hanga Kyokai - the Japan Print Association.
Catalog Ichiro Fukushima

Koichi Okumura      

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Koichi Okumura (1904-1974) belonged to the circle of Kyoto artists. He graduated from the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting and later became professor at Kyoto City University of Arts. He created a series of twelve prints, titled "Twelve Views of Kyoto", which was published by Unsodo in 1948.
Catalog Koichi Okumura

Kaoru Kawano      

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Kaoru Kawano (1916-1965) was born in Hokkaido and had studied art at Kawabata Art School. After World War II his reputation became international with solo exhibitions in New York, Seattle, Chicago. The artist worked in woodblock technique. Frequent subjects are children depicted in simplified forms and strong colors.
Catalog Kaoru Kawano

Joshua Rome      

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Joshua Rome, born 1953, is an American who lived with his family for 25 years in a small hamlet in the hills near Kyoto/Japan chronicling the life of his rural neighbors. He was born in Hartford, CT, USA. His teachers were Clifton Karhu and Kuroda Kenkichi. In 1998 Joshua Rome and his family returned to the U.S.A. and now live in Vermont. Joshua Rome is an internationally established and renowned artist whose works are in major museums and who is represented by top galleries like Yoseido, Verne Collection, Ren Brown, Ronin or Azuma Gallery. In October 2005 Joshua Rome exhibited at the prestigious CWAJ Show in Toyko for the 21st year.
Catalog Joshua Rome

Yumeji Takehisa      

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Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) is very famous and popular in Japan as painter, illustrator and printmaker of the Taisho period (1912-1926). Tokyo dedicated a museum exclusively to his paintings, watercolors and prints. The artist was active in the hanga movement and a close friend of Koshiro Onchi. His style is characterized as Western romanticism in a positive meaning. The preferred subjects of the artist were beautiful women (bijin-ga).
Catalog Yumeji Takehisa

Huang Taihua      

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Huang Taihua, born 1947, is director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Acheng, a small city of ca. 240,000 inhabitants, in Heilongjiang province. The artist works mainly in the technique of woodblock prints. Huang Taihua is one of the leading, contemporary Chinese printmakers. He is director of the Artist Association of Heilongjiang province and has a long list of national exhibitions and awards. Some of his art prints have been shown in Japan, Hong Kong and Africa. Huang Taihua, a national Korean, exhibits regularly in Seoul, Korea.
Catalog Huang Taihua

Hodo Nishimura      

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Hodo Nishimura was active as designer of kacho-e and landscape prints in Shin Hanga style in the 1930s. Publisher was Takemura Hideo. He was hardly known to Western collectors until the death of Robert O. Muller who had collected this artist.
Catalog Hodo Nishimura

Hiroshige III Utagawa      

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Hiroshige III (1842-1894) was - like Hiroshige II - a pupil of the great master Ando Hiroshige. After Hiroshige II was divorced from the daughter of Hiroshige I, he married her and called himself Hiroshige III and used the surname Ando. The work of Hiroshige III gives a highly interesting insight into the development of Japan after the opening to the outside world. Some of his works show subjects like for instance railway stations.
Catalog Hiroshige III Utagawa

Hiroshige II Utagawa      Adopted son of Ando Hiroshige

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Hiroshige II (1829-1869) was a pupil and adopted son of the great master Ando Hiroshige. Hiroshige II later married his master's daughter and took the name of his master. His works - mainly landscapes - are much in the style of Ando Hiroshige.
Catalog Hiroshige II Utagawa