#landscape print

[coolbyeli]

Lost in the quiet power of the Látrabjarg Cliffs—where the edge of Iceland meets the end of the world.

[classic-asian-art]

There's a tiny label in the upper right corner of this print that tells a second story. It says "Au Printemps" - a Parisian department store - and a price: 0 fr. 95. Less than one franc. That's what Hiroshige's vision cost a Parisian shopper in the late nineteenth century. Ando Hiroshige's "8 Views of the Kanazawa Temple" - from his Hundred Famous Views of the Provinces series - traveled from an Edo workshop to a department store shelf in Paris, priced somewhere between a bar of soap and a ribbon. Japonisme wasn't just an aesthetic movement; it was a retail event. Prints like these arrived in France by the thousands, sometimes as coveted collectibles, sometimes wrapped around exported ceramics as packing material. That zigzag staircase cutting diagonally up a sheer cliff, tiny figures visible near the base, deep Prussian blue bleeding into blue-green pines. The architecture glows pale against dark rock. Hiroshige died in 1858; decades later, his prints were still sold in Paris for pocket change. The sticker outlasted him. The department store closed. The temple endures. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

[thriftyhistorynerd]

View Near Hudson from "The Hudson River Portfolio" (1822)

Artist: William Guy Wall (1792-1864) Printmaker: John Hill (1770-1850) Publisher: Henry J. Megarey (active: 1818-1845)

[greenhousebamboo]

Hiroshi Yoshida, Park in Canton (廣東公園 / Kōtō Kōen)

Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida (1876–1950, Kurume, Fukuoka) — a leading figure of the shin-hanga (new print) movement, celebrated for his landscape prints and paintings that fuse Western realism with traditional Japanese woodblock techniques

Year: 1941

Medium: Woodcut with colored inks, jizuri (self-printed) seal

Dimensions: Approx. 20.5 × 27.0 cm

Signed: In sumi ink "Yoshida" with artist's seal "Hiroshi" and jizuri seal; pencil signature "Hiroshi Yoshida" in the margin

Subject: A park scene in Canton (Guangzhou), China — one of many works born from Yoshida's extensive travels across the globe, including the United States, Europe, India, Southeast Asia, and China

Characteristics: The print demonstrates Yoshida's mastery of subtle color gradation and atmospheric light, achieved through meticulous multi-block printing. His ability to capture the air and mood of a foreign landscape through traditional Japanese woodblock techniques remains distinctive among shin-hanga artists

Catalogue reference: No. 243 in The Complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi (Ogura, Abe Shuppan, Tokyo, 1987)

[ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi]

Gordon Mortensen ‘Desert Flowers’ Woodcut Art Print, 1987.

(via ebay - american_design_ltd)

[katjacis]

Fall by Gordon Mortensen

Reduction woodcut, 2002

[wonder-rooms]

No. 307 (1887) - Louis Kinney Harlow

[travelograph]

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