Tag: print
Representations of Herons in Ohara Shōson and Hashimoto Koei’s Japanese Woodblock Prints
What did herons symbolize in Japanese art? In Japanese culture, herons are valued for being birds who can move across…
Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints of the 20th Century
By: Teddy Keenan Overview- After the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, Japan opened up to the west. Western…
Art Nouveau: Asian Influence on European Art
Jason Ledoux Starting in the 1880s Art Nouveau was an experimental, ornamental art style that gained traction within western Europe….
Birds in Japanese Prints: The Flight of Seasons and Life
Louis Benioff Overview Overall, this collection of prints have patterns of nature as a focus, and are a strong focal…
Exploring Art in Children’s Festivals
Overview I grew up looking at a large carp banner hung high above the couch in my grandma’s living room….
“Aspects of Japonisme”: Weisberg on Japonisme
Weisberg, Gabriel P. “Aspects of Japonisme“The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Apr., 1975, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Apr.,…
Untitled (Diving Bird)
Creator: Ohara KosonCulture: JapaneseTitle: Untitled (Diving Bird)Work Type: Color woodcutDate: UnknownSize: 35 x 19 cmRepository: Wetmore Print Collection, Art History…
Suidō Bridge and Surugadai No. 48
Title: Suidō Bridge and Surugadai (Suidōbashi Surugadai), No 48 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Creator: Utagawa Hiroshige…
Azaleas: Woman Washing Her Neck, from an untitled series of beauties and flowers
Creator : Utagawa Toyokuni ITitle: Woman Washing Her NeckWork Type: Woodblock PrintDate: c. 1812Material: Woodblock Print, Ink and color on paperMeasurements:…
Monkey Reaching for The Moon
Title: Monkey Reaching for the MoonArtist: ShosonDate: c. 1910Size: 34 x 18 cmMaterial: Ink on paper, color woodcutRepository: [Black] Print…
Rain at Maekawa, Sagami
Title: Rain at Maekawa, Sagami Creator: Kawase Hasui Date: 1932 Culture: Japanese Medium: color wood cut Repository: Connecticut College Asian…
A Shoal of Fishes Series of 20 #6 Tobiuo & Isimochi (flying fish & white croaker)
Title: A Shoal of Fishes series of 20#6 Tobiuo & Isimochi (flying fish & white croaker)Creator: Hiroshige, AndoCulture: JapaneseWork Type:…
Two Assemblies from Cave 224
TITLE: Two Assemblies from Cave 224DATE: 4-6TH CenturyMEDIUM: Gypsum plaster with pigmentDIMENSIONS: H x W: 85.1 x 76.2 cm (33…
Egrets in Rain (Untitled)
Creator : Ohara Shoson – Japanese (naturalist style with watercolor washes) Title : Egrets in Rain (Untitled)Work Type : Color Woodblock…
Spring Evening at Kintai Bridge
Title: Spring Evening at Kintai Bridge Creator: Hasui Kawase Material/Medium: Color woodblock print, ink on paper Date: 1947 Culture: Japanese Dimensions: 36 x 24 cm, 15.5…
Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (plate 1)
Title: ” Nihonbashi, Edo” Fifty-three Stations of the TōkaidōArtist: Andō Hiroshige (1797-1858)Location: TōkaidōCulture: JapanMedium: Ink on paper, Color Woodblock print…
Temple in the Winter
Subject: Landscape Digital number: Black 060Title: Asa Kusa Temple in Winter Creation date: c1810Material: Ink on paper/ color woodcutSize: 21×23Description: Temple…
Kintai Bridge on Spring Evening, Yamaguchi
Title: Kintai Bridge on Spring Evening, YamaguchiCreator: HASUI, 1883-1957Date: N/APeriod: ~Meiji/Taisho PeriodsLocation: JapanMedium/Materials: Ink on paper transferred from woodblock cuttingDimensions:…
A Shoal of Fishes a series of 20: Slide #9
Title: A Shoal of Fishes series of 20: Slide #9Creator: HIROSHIGE, AndoDate: 1840Repository: Wetmore Print Collection, Art History Dept, Cummings…
Untitled (Five White Egrets)
Artist: Shosan (Koson) 1877 – 1945Title: Untitled, five white egretsNation: JapanCreation date: 1927Medium: Ink on paper, color woodcutCollection: [Black] Print…
53 Stations of Tokaido – Yoshida
Title: 53 Stations of TokaidoSecondary Title: YoshidaCreator: Ando HiroshigeDate: 1841 – 42Repository: Connecticut College Medium: Ink on PaperWork Type: Color…
Surface of the Water at Misaka in Kai Province / Reflection in Lake at Misaka in Kai Province
Titles: Surface of the Water at Misaka in Kai Province / Reflection in Lake at Misaka in Kai Province Series:…
Cockatoo & Pomegranate Woodblock Print
Title: Cockatoo & Pomegranate Artist: ShosonDate: 1927Size: 37 x 23 cmMaterial: Ink on paperRepository: Wetmore Print Collection, Art History Dept,…
Asa Kusa Temple in Winter
Title: Asa Kusa Temple in WinterCulture: JapaneseWork Type: color woodcutDate: 1810Material: ink on paperDimensions: 21 x 35 cmRepository: Wetmore Print…
A Shoal of Fishes
Title: A Shoal of FishesCreator: Hiroshige, AndoCulture: JapaneseWork Type: color woodcutMaterial/Medium: ink on paperDate: 1840Measurements: Image 26 x 36 cmRepository:…
Standing Woman
Creator: Utagawa ToyokuniCulture: JapaneseTitle: Geisha and kikyo flowers (Standing Woman)Work Type: Color WoodcutDate: 1830-36Repository: Wetmore Print Collection, Art History Dept,…
Dancer as Sagimusume
Title: Dancer as SagimusumeCreator: KokyoMedium: color woodcut, print Dimensions: 39 x 25 cmRepository: Wetmore Print Collection, Art History Dept, Cummings Arts Center,…
Untitled Kabuki Print of Female Impersonator
Creator: KUNICHIKA, Japanese Title: Untitled Work Type: color woodcut Material: ink on paper Measurements: Image: 34 x 24 cm Repository:…
Five White Egrets
Title: Five White EgretsCreator: Ohara KosonMedium: Color woodcutRepository: Black Collection of Japanese Prints (Connecticut College ASIAN Art Collection)Date: 1927Culture: Japanese Dimension: 265mm…
Geisha and kikyo flowers (Standing Woman)
Title: Geisha and kikyo flowers (Standing Woman)Creator: Utagawa ToyokuniDate: 1830-36Location: Connecticut College, Caroline Black Collection of Japanese WoodcutsCulture: JapaneseMedium: Color Woodcut…
Hokusai Seeking the Mountain
The 18th-19th century Japanese artist, Katsushika Hokusai, created each of the prints included in this exhibition as a part of…
Kajikazawa in Kai Province
Title(s): Kajikazawa in Kai Province (Kōshū Kajikazawa), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) Creator: Katsushika Hokusai Date: About…
Surface of the Water at Misaka in Kai Province
Title(s): Surface of the Water at Misaka in Kai Province; Reflection in Lake at Misaka in Kai Province (Kōshū Misaka…
Rainstorm Beneath the Summit
Title(s): Rainstorm Beneath the Summit; Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit; Shower Below the Summit (Sanka hakuu), from the series Thirty-six Views of…
Ohara Koson Art
Ohara Koson, a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ohara Koson was…
“Hokusai’s Great Waves in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Visual Culture.”
By Christine M. E. Guth https://www.jstor.org/stable/23208270 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off…
From Traditionalists Katsushika Hokusai and Zhang Daqian, To Post-War Masters Willem de Kooning, Zao Wou-Ki, Josef Albers, and Yves Klein.
Eastern and Western aesthetics in painting evoking emotion, abstraction and explosiveness in color and nature By: Isabella Di Scipio Each…
Ohara Koson “Cat and Bowl of Goldfish”
A woodblock print by Ohara Koson, the print depicts a cat in a serious watching pose near a bowl of…
Ohara Koson “Cockatoo on Pomegranate”
Painted by Ohara Koson, Cockatoo on Pomegranate is just that – a lifelike impression painted on a color woodblock print….
Ohara Koson “Monkey reaching for the Moon”
In this piece of art, the image depicted is of a monkey reaching into a pond hoping to grab the…
Scene From Naval Battles in the Sino Japanese War
Creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915?), Matsumoto Heikichi (woodcarver)Date Created: 1894Location: JapanPhysical Dimensions: 47 x 82.5 cmMedium: Woodblock Print on PaperPeriod: Meiji…
Monsters, Water, and War: Beasts and Battles in Japanese Art and Culture
The exhibition Monsters, Water, and War examines the influence of folk tales and military history on the art and culture…
Kiyohime, Emerging from the Hidaka River, Turning into a Serpent
Creator: Tsukioka YoshitoshiDate Created: 1865, 9th monthLocation: JapanPhysical Dimensions: Image: 13 11/16 x 9 1/2 in. (34.8 x 24.1 cm);…
Geishas and Animals in Japanese Woodblock Prints from the 17th Century to the 21st
What are Japanese Woodblock Prints? Most people probably know Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura (The Great Wave). This is one of…
“Japanese Prints 1868–2008”
Smith, Lawrence. “Japanese Prints 1868–2008.” Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000, edited by J. Thomas Rimer, by Toshiko…
Two Women Writing
Artist: Kikukawa Eizan Date Created: 1850s Location: Japan Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper Historical Period: Edo Era…
Scene from Russo-Japanese War
Creator: Toyohara Chikanobu 豊原周信Location: JapanDate Created: 1904Physical Dimensions: 36.7 × 72 cm (14 7/16 × 28 3/8 in)Medium: Woodblock Print…
Evening Shower at Ryogoku
Creator: Utagawa HirokageDate Created: 1859Location: JapanDimensions: 13-3/16 x 8-1/2 in. (image) 13-3/4 x 9-1/2 in. (sheet)Period: EdoMedium: Ink on paper,…
