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Shadows, Dreams, & Substance

This exhibition, catalog, and programming were made possible by

the generous support of Ford.

Conservation of the works in this exhibition was made possible through a grant from The United

States-Japan Foundation.

February 28 - May 7, 2012

The Art Institute of Chicago111 South Michigan Avenue

Chicago, Illinois, 60603

This exhibition showcases the Muse-um’s spectacular holdings of Japanese prints, books, and drawings from the 17th to the 19th centuries. These works are complemented by related works from the museum’s collections created by Japanese and Westerns artists into the 20th century.

The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance showcases the museum’s spectacu-lar holdings of Japanese “Ukiyo-e” (translated as pictures of the floating, or sorrowful, world) and is the first public viewing of this important and

previously unseen collection. Featured are selected Ukiyo-e prints, books, and drawings from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries and other re-lated works from the Library’s collec-tions created by Japanese and Western artists into the twentieth century.The museum owes its extensive hold-ings of Ukiyo-e prints and printed books to a host of different collectors, including Supreme Court Justice Oli-ver Wendell Holmes and President William Howard Taft. However, the most extensive collection of Ukiyo-e at the Library was assembled by Crosby Stuart Noyes (1825-1908), an owner

and editor-in-chief of the former Washington Evening Star. In giving the collection to the Library in 1905, Mr. Noyes expressed the hope that the collection would be “an illustration of the extraordinary variety in Japanese art and an instructive and timely in-sight into their history and culture.”In presenting this exhibition, the offers its visitors The Art Institute of Chi-cago the opportunity to see the beauty and the meaning that motivated Cros-by Stuart Noyes and others to collect these materials.