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Artist
Kawanashi Hide
Japan
1894 - 1965

About
This series of prints is a unique set of prints in two ways: at least thirty contemporary artists collaborated in a single series of landscape prints, depicting both famous places & scenery of modern urban life. This series is a product of the Creative Print Movement, a modern movement in printmaking which began early in the 20th century by artists who designed, blockcut & printed their own work with a clear intention of creating works of art as opposed to `surimono', reproductions. Due to the intensification of WWII, publication of the series was stopped by the Japanese authorities who feared that the interior of Japan would become known to its enemies.
Details
Alternative title
Shin Nihon hyakkei: 10 Hyûga Aoshima
Date
1938-1939
Materials used
colour woodcut
Dimensions
22.6 x 30.1 cm image; 24.6 x 32.3 cm mount
Signature & date
Signed u.r., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "[artist's logo & seal]". Not dated.
Credit
Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 1997
Location
Not on display
Accession number
8.1997.13

Place
Where the work was made
Japan
Shown in 1 exhibition
Exhibition history
Hanga: Japanese creative prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Oct 2000–07 Jan 2001
Referenced in 1 publication
Bibliography
AJIOKA, Hanga: Japanese creative prints, '1930s-1950s: Consolidation of Hanga and the individualists', pg. 70-98, Sydney, 2000, 84 (colour illus.), 100, 109. cat.no. 4.9ii