Description
Rare pre-earthqauke design; published by The S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
Evening Cool at Okawa
Hiroaki, Shotei, 1871-1945
Evening Cool at Okawa- Artist : Hiroaki, Shotei, 1871-1945
- Date : c. 1920
- Medium : woodblock
- Item# : 270226
- Condition : Faint toning on reverse; light waviness in paper
- Image size : 14 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches
- Illustrated : Shotei.com, pl. M-80
- Comments : Rare pre-earthqauke design; published by The S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
- SOLD
About The Artist
Hiroaki, Shotei, 1871-1945Born in Asakusa district of Toyko. Original name Takahashi Katsutaro; used the art name Shotei 1907-1922, Hiroaki or Komei after 1922. Studied Japanese-style painting with his uncle Matsumoto Fuko. In 1891 with Terazaki Kogyo organized Japan Youth Painting Society (Nihon Seinen Kaiga Kyokai). Illustrated textbooks and newspaper novels. Began designing woodblocks for Watanabe Shozaburo for export in 1907 and produced about 500 prints before September 1923. The blocks for all were destroyed .....
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Evening Cool at Okawa
$1,500.00
Dimensions listed are for entire sheet; rare pre-earthqauke design
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