The Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Lauren Rogers Museum

On View March 30, 2012 Through June 23, 2012

Located in the Louisiana Art & Science Museum

The fleeting beauty of nature and the efflorescence of pleasure were depicted in 50 colorful ukiyo-e prints dating from Japan’s Edo Period (1600–1868).

Wallace B. Rogers, founder of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, collected the prints in the 1920s and later donated them to the Lauren Rogers Museum in Mississippi. Tour managed by Smith Kramer Travelling Exhibition Services.

The fleeting beauty of nature and the efflorescence of pleasure were depicted in 50 colorful ukiyo-e prints dating from Japan’s Edo Period (1600–1868).

Wallace B. Rogers, founder of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, collected the prints in the 1920s and later donated them to the Lauren Rogers Museum in Mississippi. Tour managed by Smith Kramer Travelling Exhibition Services.

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