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100 Famous Views
by Jennifer Dalton


*Image of To* by Midori Curtis

19th century Japanese printmaker Hiroshige's 100 Famous Views of Edo actually features 118 images of the city known today as Tokyo. During Hiroshige's time, this metropolis was filled with serene rivers, pink cherry blossoms and tree-shaded walkways.


*Japan: Men. Work. Rice.* by Jesse Algeron Rhines

Some one hundred and fifty years later, many of his picturesque locations are unrecognizable in contemporary Tokyo.


*Ohgi (Fan)* by Midori Curtis

The striking compositions and beautiful colors of his prints have influenced countless later artists, most notably Degas, Monet and other Impressionist and post-Impressionist painters.


*Veils from the Past* by Guillemette Schlumberger

Featuring works by PaintingsDirect.com artists.

Van Gogh not only owned prints from this series, but also painted directly from them: the recent Hiroshige exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum featured a reproduction of a van Gogh painting clearly referencing a specific composition of one of the famous Edo views.

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