The Portland Art Museum already has one of the most significant collections of modern Japanese prints in North America.

On Sept. 27, it burnishes those credentials with the opening of the first solo U.S. exhibition of the late artist Yoshida Chizuko (1924-2017).

Born in 1924, Yoshida Chizuko forged a place for herself in Japan’s male-dominated postwar art world. And though she married into the well-known Yoshida artist family — which produced three generations of influential woodblock print artists — critics say her work has been often overshadowed.

The new exhibition brings together more than 100 of Yoshida’s woodblock prints and paintings, many of which have never before been displayed publicly.

Portland Art Museum’s Asian art curator Jeannie Kenmotsu joins us to discuss the the avant-garde artist who pushed the boundaries of both painting and printmaking, her place in the Yoshida family legacy and why her work still feels modern today.

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