Pat Steir: After Hokusai, After Hiroshige January 9, 2011

Complementing 'Japanesque' at the Legion of Honor, this exhibition shows the continued influence of the Japanese print on Western artists into the late twentieth century. American painter, printmaker, and conceptual artist Pat Steir was the first artist selected by Kathan Brown in 1982 to travel to Japan to make a color woodcut for Crown Point Press's groundbreaking printmaking program in Kyoto. There she had the opportunity to work closely with artisans trained in the traditional methods of Japanese woodblock printing.