"Cats and hibiscus" by Katsushika Hokusai from Banmotsu ehon daizen zu (Illustrations for The Great Picture Book of Everything). Block-ready drawing, ink on paper, Japan, 1820s–40s. All works ...

Freer Gallery of Art founder Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919) first discovered the great Japanese artist Hokusai (1760–1849) through his woodblock prints. Beginning in 1898, Freer turned to collecting ...

Created by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) in the early 1830s, the woodblock print (full name: “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”) was a sensation from the moment it was produced as part of ...

Japanese painter and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, best known for his iconic The Great Wave print, created small-scale drawings for an unpublished book titled Great Picture Book of Everything in 1829 ...

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is a Japanese ukiyo-e art legend, most famous as the creator of the woodblock print series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” and the single print “The Great Wave off ...

Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai produced many masterpieces over his long career, but The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a work that can stand alongside Lednardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in terms of its ...

So you woke up late on the weekend, and need to get out of the city to see some art, but you haven’t had time to plan. No problem: We’ve done the research for you. Here’s our pick for a great ...

This week: the Los Angeles wildfires. The Art Newspaper’s West coast contributing editor in LA, Jori Finkel, tells our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, about the devastation in Southern ...

Type “wave” into your smartphone and a Great Wave replica emoji pops up. Not even Mona Lisa has that! The Great Wave has a LEGO set. A Google search for “Hokusai Great Wave” brings back 3.6 million ...