The Floating World: Ukiyo-E Prints From the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art June 7, 2012

The fleeting beauty of nature and the efflorescence of pleasure are depicted in 50 colorful ukiyo-e prints dating from Japan's Edo Period (1600-1868). Beautiful women, actors and the theater, landscapes, narrative scenes, and decorative themes feature widely in ukiyo-e prints, an art form that later influenced masters such as Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent van Gogh. Ukiyo-e literally translates as "images of the floating world" and refers to the genre of woodblock printing that arose in the metropolitan culture of Edo, today known as Tokyo. Wallace B. Rogers, founder of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, collected the prints on view in just under five years during the 1920s.