“Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920–1945”

Around the turn of the 20th century, Western artists from Mary Cassatt to Pablo Picasso looked to traditional painting and prints from Japan. A few decades later, artisans from that country started incorporating imagery from all over the globe, and local youth culture emulated looser Prohibition-era mores from Europe and America. See Japan’s Art Deco creations, including jewelry, furniture, postcards and photographs.