John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art
Reno, Nevada
The Lilley Museum of Art is located on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Artist: Suzuki Harunobu
Original name Hozumi Harunobu, born in 1725 in Edo (Tokyo), Japan, Harunobu was an artist of the Ukiyo-e movement, which consisted of painting and woodblock prints of the "floating world." Horunobu is credited for establishing the art of nishiki-e, or polychrome prints. His compositions were considered to depict lyrical scenes with figures of exquisite grace, along with his use of delicate coloring and lines, he excelled in drawing background scenes that added a subtle mood to his images. It was believed that he studied painting in Kyoto with Nishikawa Sukenobu and went to Edo around 1760. His work had little recognition until he started designing nishiki-e in 1765 for haiku (17-syllable verse) poems. Around this time, it had also become fashionable to exchange such prints with poetry. Harunobu died on July 8, 1770 in Edo, Japan.
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