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Title

Hyûga Aoshima, from the series New hundred views of Japan

1938-1939

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

Place where the work was made

Japan

Date

1938-1939

Media category

Print

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

Artist information

Kawanashi Hide

Works in the collection

2

Place

Where the work was made
Japan
Shown in 1 exhibition

Exhibition history

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