The impact of Japan on American works on paper is explored in "Japonisme in American Graphic Art, 1880-1920" at New York's Brooklyn Museum.
Japanese imagery's influence on the graphic arts of the United States is illustrated in Japonisme in American Graphic Art, 1880-1920, exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum's Luce Visible Storage Study Center (April 16-August 3, 2008). More than 25 of the institution's rarely seen works on paper describe late 19th- and early 20th-century America's fascination with the exoticism of Japan. Etchings, lithographs, pastels, watercolors and other works by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Robert Blum (1857-1903) and Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) demonstrate how their art was influenced by the flattened figures and pronounced linear technique of Japanese woodcut prints.
