KURIYAMA Shigeru
(Japan 1912– )
Lake Ashino-ko in early autumn, from the series New hundred views of Japan
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
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.
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Japan: Shôwa period 1926–1988
- Year
- 1940
- Media
- Medium
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
- 22.9 x 30.0cm image; 25.2 x 33.3cm support
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "[artist's seal]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 1997
- Accession number
- 8.1997.36
