The Verne Collection - Contemporary Japanese Prints and Paintings

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Established in 1953, the Verne Collection is a gallery that specializes in contemporary Japanese prints and paintings. We invite you to take in the quiet elegance of the works of these artists.

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The Etchings of Ryohei Tanaka (1933-2019)

Thatched Roof
Farmhouses:

The Verne Collection Presents

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Ryohei Tanaka was one of the leading contemporary Japanese printmakers from the 1960’s to the present. I would meet him many times in Kyoto and he visited my gallery in the 1990’s. He was famous for his etchings of thatched roof farmhouses. The farmhouse are quickly disappearing in Japan, but his etchings of these humble simple structures will be with us forever. Like his etchings, Ryohei was a humble quiet guy who was admired by all.

Ryohei Tanaka - Ruined Farmhouse Kameoka (1990)

The Art of Sarah Brayer

From Kyoto
to the Stars

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From Kyoto to the Stars is a special exhibition of Sarah Brayer’s poured washi paperworks and rare early prints and paintings. As the days become shorter and the moon rises earlier in the sky, we chose to feature Sarah’s new aquatint on indigo dyed handmade mulberry paper, with phosphorescent pigments, Midnight Moon.

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SINGING IN
THE RAIN

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This special exhibition includes some of Daniel Kelly’s earliest and most rare landscape images, most famous lantern paintings and prints, koi prints and tea bowl images, many of which there is only one left available for sale.

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USUMONO

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Journey into transparency, form, and texture as Yuko Kimura explores one of a kind two and three dimensional handmade paper, hand stitched, etchings, linoleum block, antique Japanese woodblock pages and experimental patchwork prints.