PAST: ART: The National Gallery of Art West Building displays "Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800)" for the first time outside of Japan! FRI, March 30th - SUN, April 29th, Free

Itō Jakuchū, Peonies and 

Butterflies  (J. Shakuyaku 

gunchō zu), c. 1757 (Hōreki 7), 

c. 1757–1766, Sannomaru 

Shōzōkan (The Museum of the 

Imperial Collections), The 

Imperial Household Agency

On view at the National Gallery of Art West Building
Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings 

by Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800)
Free

Friday, March 30th - Sunday, April 29th 

"This exhibition marks the centennial of Japan's gift of cherry trees to Washington, and the first time this renowned cultural treasure--generously lent by the Imperial Household Agency--has been displayed in its entirety outside of Japan."

"Itō Jakuchū's 30-scroll Colorful Realm of Living Beings (J. Dōshoku sai-e; c. 1757–1766) is acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements in the history of Japanese nature painting. A wealthy wholesaler and talented painter, Jakuchū is the most recognized artist of Japan's premodern era and Colorful Realm is his masterpiece." 

National Gallery of Art

West Building, Ground Floor

7th & Constitution Ave, NW

Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial, closest to the West Buidling