Online Exhibitions

Combining the aesthetics of traditional prints, Western cartoons, and textile patterns, Hideo Takeda’s prints are startling, boldly graphic, often surreal, and at times subtly beautiful. I have just returned from a major exhibition of his works at the Princeton Art Museum called Takeda Hideo’s Genpei: Defying Authority.

This online exhibition will shock you, make you laugh, and teach you a little bit about ancient Japanese history and current events that can only be depicted by one of the most creative Japanese artists of our time.

The beauty of empty space in Japanese prints and paintings is called yohaku no bi.

Growing up with understated Japanese scroll paintings in my family’s private collection, some of which were on loan to The Metropolitan Museum, Cleveland Museum Of Art, and The Fogg at Harvard, I unknowingly developed my own version of a sense of space.

For this online exhibition, I selected one work from each artist on the website. Please enjoy “A Sense Of Space: The 73rd Anniversary of The Verne Collection”.

When competing against some of the most important galleries in the world in order to compete you have to think big.

As the holidays approach, I would like to invite you to a little gallery called the Verne Collection established in 1953. Please enjoy this holiday themed exhibition, in conjunction with the 2025 Little Italy Cleveland Art Walk.

Sarah Brayer, of Kyoto Japan, is known internationally for her poured washi paperworks, woodblock prints, and aquatints.

Her works reside in the collections of the British Museum, the Smithsonian, the Legion of Honor and the Zimmerli Art Museum to name a few.

In Japanese fiction, cats often reflect the compassionate side of the human heart or times of good fortune. In Japan, dogs are often used to represent diligence, honor, and devotion. Traditional beliefs also associate inu, dogs, with having magical abilities to resist evil spirits and demons.

Mark Edward Harris is an award-winning travel and documentary photographer based in Los Angeles, California.

Too often we take for granted, or give credit to, the big cities like New York, Paris, Miami, Los Angeles, and London for the accomplishments in the arts.

“Sometimes, when you believe in the impossible, the incredible comes true.”
– Field of Dreams, 1989

Join us the weekend of May 31st, 2024, in Little Italy Cleveland for the annual summer Art Walk! Take a stroll through this online exhibition centered around the theme of walking and come and see us in the gallery during the art walk Friday May 31^st – Sunday June 2^nd in historic Little Italy.

At a time when small businesses are struggling to remain open, and are disappearing at an alarming rate, one artist has dedicated his career to making works which feature the traditional businesses of Japan. Some of which are hundreds of years old.

Kiyoshi Saito is considered one of the most important printmakers of the Sōsaku-Hanga Japanese print movement. Please enjoy this online exhibition of prints by Saito, which showcases some of his best works.

In these times, when life seems to have sped up on many levels, where much of contemporary art has a combative feel, I invite you to take in the quiet elegance of many of my artist’s works.

When I started at the gallery over 40 years ago, one of the things that attracted me to Japanese art was the beauty of the handmade papers in many of the works.

Each artist’s way of using high-quality kozo, gampi fiber, and handmade papers from Nepal and other countries was quite unique compared to the art of the West.

We have recently acquired a beautiful collection of Clifton Karhu’s prints. Clifton Karhu is of Finnish descent and he first arrived in Japan in 1947. I was lucky enough to meet him for the first time in Kyoto 1997.  He was the most important Western woodblock printmaker of all the famous old buildings of Kyoto.

Please enjoy Kyoto Rediscovered, an exhibition of many of Karhu’s early woodblock prints.

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.

Historically, the most sought-after Japanese prints are those that depict scenes of snow and rain. In Japanese imagery these prints are very peaceful, serene, and beautiful.  Bring the outside in at the Verne Gallery.

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.

It’s the rainy season in Japan, this special exhibition is built around Daniel Kelly’s new woodblock print Slippery When Wet.

This special exhibition includes some of 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.

Yuko Kimura’s new series Usumono is about thin transparent handmade paper layers.  Yuko Kimura won the Agnes Gund Award in 1994. Transparency, form,and texture all take priority as she constructs her one of a kind two and three dimensional handmade paper, hand stitched,  etchings, linoleum block, and experimental patchwork prints.

Her translucent kozo bark fiber lace makes each work mysterious and beautiful. Please enjoy these new works, and some works from her other series too.