The Verne Collection
Recent Acquisitions | November 2020
Recent Acquisitions | November 2020
Lilian May Miller, Daniel Kelly, Gen Yamanaka, Hasui Kawase, Hideo Takeda, Katsunori Hamanishi, Mayumi Oda, Sarah Brayer, Shigeki Kuroda, Yuko Kimura
Please enjoy this selection from our November edition of recent acquisitions. To view the list in its entirety, please click on the link provided in this viewing room.
Thank You,
Michael Verne
President | Verne Gallery
About the Gallery:
The Verne Collection of contemporary Japanese prints and paintings was established in 1953 when my parents lived in Japan for two years. In the beginning we specialized in ukiyo-e (floating world prints). The collection began to grow and included works from such well known and respected Japanese artists such as Utamaro, Hiroshige, Hokusai, Kunisada, Yoshitoshi and other important Japanese printmakers from the 18th and 19th century. With the help of contemporary Japanese print experts like Oliver Statler, Frances Blakemore, Yuji Abe and Norman Tolman, the collection grew to include sosaku hanga and contemporary Japanese prints. Artists such as Koshiro Onchi, Shiko Munakata, Kiyoshi Saito, Umetaro Azechi, Ryohei Tanaka, Katsunori Hamanishi, Toko Shinoda and many others were added from the 1960’s to the present. The shin hanga artists like Kawase Hasui, Ito Shinsui, Torii Kotondo, Hashiguchi Goyo, and Hiroshi Yoshida would become an important part of the Verne Gallery in the 1980’s.
Almost one hundred years after the western artists such as Bertha Lum, Helen Hyde, and Charles Bartlett, the Verne Collection would become one of the most important galleries in the world for present day western artists in Japan. Clifton Karhu, Daniel Kelly, Brian Williams, Sarah Brayer, Joel Stewart, Micah Schwaberow, Margaret K. Johnson, and Joshua Rome would emerge as some of the leading printmakers and painters in Japan and throughout the world.
The Verne Collection exhibits in the top shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Washington D.C.. Our gallery is located in Little Italy in Cleveland, Ohio; a few minutes from the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Image Credit:
Manjushage: Flowers of Heaven, Mezzotint Triptych, by Katsunori Hamanishi (Detail)
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Place Where the Stars Shine (星の見える場所), Woodblock Print, by Gen Yamanaka
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Straight Away, Concrete relief, lithograph, and hand-color on Nepalese paper, by Daniel Kelly
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Rain Blossoms Japan, Woodblock Print, by Lillian May Miller
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Fuji Clouds
Yuko Kimura
2020
10" x 12"
Indigo Dye, Etching, Handmade Kozo Paper
This work was received directly from the artist upon completion.
Edition of 1
P.O.R.
Katsunori Hamanishi
Manjushage: Flowers of Heaven
2020
27" x 53"
Mezzotint Triptych
This work was received directly from the artist upon completion.
Edition of 50
P.O.R.
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Gen Yamanaka
Place Where the Stars Shine (星の見える場所)
2004
13" x 17.75"
mokuhanga (woodblock print)
This work was received directly from the artist.
A.P. 3/5
P.O.R.
Hideo Takeda
Hotaru: Fireflies
2020
14" x 12"
Painting
This work was received directly from the artist upon completion.
P.O.R.
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