Itō Jakuchū Exhibition: A Man with No Age

Start
Saturday, April 16, 2011
End
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Location
Bowers Museum

Tiger, Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800) Edo period, Hōreki 5 (1755) Hanging scroll, colors on silk. Copyright 2010 Itō Jakuchū: A Man with No Age courtesy of the Etsuko and Joe Price Collection
Copyright 2011, The Price Collection

Itō Jakuchū: A Man with No Age
April 16 to June 12, 2011

Bowers Museum
2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA 92706

It is the first ever exhibit dedicated solely to Jakuchū. The outstanding Japanese screen and scroll paintings from the Etsuko and Joe Price Collection experienced immense success as a traveling exhibition in 2006-2007, attracting over one million viewers. Ito Jakuchu was a man considered by many to be one of the greatest artists that ever lived, yet known to by very few outside of Japan.

Born in Japan in 1715, he lived as a vegetable seller and a Buddhist monk, all the while living a life devoted to illuminating the beauty of nature with the magical stroke of the artist’s brush. But Jakuchū took his brush beyond just skill, making him different from all others. His works are diverse and so coupled with the heart of nature that they have an ageless quality and appeal to people from all walks of life – no scholarly explanations needed. Jakuchu’s paintings have left their mark, a stroke far beyond the capabilities of ordinary men.

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