"Looking East" Exhibition at SF Asian Art Museum

San Francisco Asian Art Museum is exploring "How Japan Inspired Monet, Van Gogh and Other Western Artists" with its current special exhibition "Looking East". 



The exhibition was not a gimmick as one might suspect but it is also pointless to determine which pieces influenced which. I would only venture to showcase those pieces made strong impressions on me, either they are by western or Japanese artists.  Some of them are very delicate and others exciting and the rest humorous and delightful.




Still life with azaleas and apple blossoms, Charles Caryl Coleman


Kajikazawa in Kai Province, Katsushika Hokusai


Night Herons (Nachtreiher), Otto Eckmann


Silver Herons (Zilverreigers), Theodorus van Hoytema


Five Swans, Otto Eckmann


Landscape with two Breton Women, Paul Gauguin


Port of Saint-Cast, Paul Signac


Haystack (sunset), Claude Monet


Vase of flowers, Henri Matisse


The Silver Screen, Frank Weston Benson


Maternal Caress, Mary Stevenson Cassat


Postman Joseph Roulin, Vincent van Gogh


Actor Onoe Kikujiro Il as Takiyasha-hime, Utagawa Kunisada & Actor Matsumoto Yonesaburo, Utagawa Kunimasa


The artist's grandmother, Emile Bernard


Meditation, Alfred Steven


Fig leaves, Edna Boies Hopkins


Bradley: His Book, William H. Bradley


Cover of Love (Amour), Maurice Denis


Family Umbrella, Helen Hyde


Jane Avril & Caudieux-Petit Casino), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec


Painted horse escaping from a votive plaque, Totoya Hokkei & Hunting, William Nicholson


The Jockey, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec


Illustration of the Opening Ceremony of the Union Horse Racing Club's Racetrack around Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park, Hashimoto Chikanobu


The square at evening, Pierre Bonnard


Woman in Bed, Profile (Femme au lit, profil), Toulouse-Lautrec


Child with lamp, Bonnard, Looking East, Asian Art Museum



Street corner seen from above, Pierre Bonnard


English Woman (Engländerin), Emil Orlik


[Courtesan as the immortal] Fei Zhangfang, Okumura Masanobu & Laziness (La Paresse), Félix Edouard Vallotton


Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake, Utagawa Hiroshige I


Standing courtesan, Keisai Eisen



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