The Legion of Honor: “Japanesque”—So Picturesque!
Before Xmas my husband and I saw an unbelievable art exhibit, “Japanesque”, at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco (see flyer below). It is such a beautifully organized exhibit of Japanese ukiyoe woodblock prints, from the Legion’s own Achenbach collection. I hadn’t seen such an exquisite collection in one place since a similarly conceived show at the Marmottan Monet’s Academie des Beaux Arts (www.marmottan.com) in Paris about four years ago (Les Estampes Japonaises De Claude Monet, February 2007). The organizing and conceptual strength of the exhibit–“Japanesque: The Japanese Print...