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Title:	Yoshida Hiroshi: Journeys through Light
Date:	6/21/2025 - 1/11/2026
Address:	The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, FL 34243
Location:	Sarasota, FL
Hours:	10:00am - 5:00pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $30
Web Page:	https://www.ringling.org/event/yoshida-hiroshi-journeys-thro ...
Contact Info:	941-359-5700

Details:

Renowned for his evocative renderings of light, mist, and glowing colour, visionary artist Yoshida Hiroshi (Japanese, 1876–1950) gathered his subject matter from his travels across the Americas, Europe, north Africa, and Asia. Back in his studio, he translated his sketches into the medium of polychrome woodblock printing — an artform perfected over 200 years of Japanese history. Drawing from The Ringling’s extensive holdings and local private collections, this exhibition focuses on Yoshida’s betsu-zuri or “separate printings,” referring to multiple color versions of single designs. Yoshida, or an artisan working under his close supervision, would print a single design using the same set of wooden printing blocks in different palettes of color and textures to suggest varying times of the day, climactic conditions, and emotional states. Further variation may result from the colorants being prepared, applied, and printed by hand, the paper, sizing treatments, moisture levels, and wear sustained by the blocks. Although a single design may be produced in the hundreds, each impression is unique.