The MFA Hokusai Exhibit "the Great Wave"

 I've seen the exhibit three times, now, and am still impressed.  It is a remarkable and huge exhibit, and I hope all of you have seen it.  

Here are my favorite items.

Annabeth Rosen
Wave   2012

Katsukawa Shunsho
Actors   1726

Katsukawa Shunsho
Shakkyo, the Lion Dance  1787
One of the most exquisite, nuanced and elegant paintings I have ever seen.

Manjiro Hokuga
Tiger in a Thunder Storm   1840

Jofu
Woman Holding Child Beneath Willows   1820
Look at those wonderful hands!

Manjiro Hokuga
A Young Samurai Punishing a Scoundrel   1840
(the other "moon" in the painting, below and to the right of
the artists' is the top of my head reflected in the glass!)

Helen Frankenthaler
Morning   1982

Katsushika Taito II
Dragon in Clouds  1840

Katsushika Taito II
Goddess Drawing a Bow   1832

Katsushika Hokusai
Ushibori in Hitachi Province   1830

Paul Legrand
Inkstand   1876

John Cederquist
How to Wrap Five Waves   1994

Roy Lichtenstein
Drowning Girl   1963

Louis Stewart in front of an installation

Claude Monet
The Water Lily Pond   1900
Barbara and I visited Giverny, and Monet's home walls were covered with
hundreds of Japanese woodcuts. 

Katsushika Hokusai
Kingfisher with Iris and Wild Pinks   1834
I absolutely adore the way this beautiful bird is flying in under the curving
leaf.  And the proportion of bill size to the rest of the bird is correct.

 

Unknown artist (formerly attributed to Hokusai)
Female Ghost in the Moonlight   1850
(She holds the ghost of the child who died with her in childbirth)

Odilon Redon
The misshapen polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops
(Le polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux)   1883
A uniquely different art sensibility.

Katsushika Hokusai
Laughing Demon   1831

CAI Participants and Alexandra Adamo
Community Dreamscape   2023

My companion for the tour, Louis Stewart, conductor, composer, 
pianist, and collaborator on at least ten concerts and recitals over the past 50 years. 
(We were roommates at New England Conservatory; He teaches at Berklee College)