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Hawaii 2015: How Woodblock Prints are Made

Posted on March 1, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

In my previous posting I wrote about the “who,” the “what” and the “why” of Japanese woodblock printmaking. As we walked out of the gallery in the Honolulu Museum of Art that is devoted to Japanese woodblock prints we came … Continue reading →

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Hawaii 2015: Japanese Woodblock Prints at the Honolulu Museum of Art

Posted on February 27, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

One of the five galleries that surround the Chinese Courtyard in the Honolulu Museum of Art is reserved for the ongoing display of 20 or so prints from the museum’s vast collection of Japanese woodblock prints. The exhibit we saw … Continue reading →

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Hawaii 2015: Anna Rice Cooke and the Honolulu Museum of Art

Posted on February 20, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

Anna Rice Cooke was a patron of the arts in Honolulu and founder of the Honolulu Academy of Arts which would become the Honolulu Museum of Art. She was born in 1853 in Oahu, the daughter of Protestant missionaries. She … Continue reading →

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