Pinkowitz Collection

From the earliest surviving printed illustration in Japan to prints and books by living artists, print culture lies at the heart of the Pinkowitz Collection. The collection traces printing in Japan as both an art of collaborative hands and minds and a technology of knowledge production, shaped by the times and places of its making and shared across generations of readers.

The collection is also expanding into painting, for painters were themselves formed by the visual world that print helped create. Executed with brush on paper or silk, these works preserve knowledge, memory, and the moment of making within a single surface, carrying forward what generations of collectors have preserved.

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From the earliest surviving printed illustration in Japan to prints and books by living artists, print culture lies at the heart of the Pinkowitz Collection. The collection traces printing in Japan as both an art of collaborative hands and minds and a technology of knowledge production, shaped by the times and places of its making and shared across generations of readers.

The collection is also expanding into painting, for painters were themselves formed by the visual world that print helped create. Executed with brush on paper or silk, these works preserve knowledge, memory, and the moment of making within a single surface, carrying forward what generations of collectors have preserved.