Kumoi Cherry Trees (Kumoi zakura)
1926
Color woodblock print
23 x 29⅛ in. (58.4 x 74 cm)
Signed: Yoshida (in brush), Hiroshi Yoshida (bottom left margin in pencil)
Our Fall exhibition explores the world of Japanese prints in the first half of the twentieth century. This was an era of energy, new influences, and styles, and a refocusing of the Japanese print world by catering to new tastes. The man at the center of this revival was the entrepreneurial genius Watanabe Shōzuburō (1885–1962), whose publications form the greatest portion of the works in this exhibition. Deeply interested in Edo period ukiyo-e, Watanabe made it his project to rescue the art form, which had fallen somewhat out of fashion.
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