Utagawa Hiroshige II

Hoki Shimotani Shinkei - Woodcut Print by Utagawa Hiroshige II - 1859

1859

Amsterdam is an artwork realized by Frans Masereel, 1933. Woodcut print representing Amsterdam. 75 x 55 with frame; 17h x 12 cm each work. Good conditions.

Shiga City is an original artwork realized by Unknown Artist, in the early 20th Century. Beautiful woodcut print on cardboard. This artwork represents three different representatio...

Wandering monks in the courtyard of Konoura is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826 – 1869) in the 1840s. Good impression with reduced palette mainly in...

Fukuroi Dejaya No Zu (An Outdoor Tea Stall at Fukuroi), is a beautiful color woodblock print on paper, the plate n. 28 from the series Fifty-three Stations Along the Tokaido (Tokai...

Bold woodblock serigraph by Ruth Chaney (American, 1908-1973). Numbered (#17), titled, signed, and dated along the bottom edge. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has an edition of...

Der Wald - or, the Forest - consists of nine wood block prints in a single portfolio. In each of the nine images a single tree is printed cleanly in solid black on manila colored ar...

Signed, lower right, with artist's chop mark in Hiragana, 'Tensen-e' 天泉絵, for Ogyū Tensen 荻生天泉 (Japanese, 1882-1947) A large, early-20th-century, hand-colored Japanese woodblock showing elegantly-robed figures seated beside musical instruments in a panoramic landscape and viewing the full moon through golden clouds. An elegant example composed with clear artistic vision and printed with a consummate mastery of a challenging medium. Nihonga style painter Ogyu Tensen was born in present-day Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture. He studied at the Tokyo Fine Arts School, where he was taught by the well-known Kanō school painter Gahō Hashimoto (1835-1908), who was instrumental in the development of nihonga painting. Tensen was selected to participate in the first Bunten exhibition (Ministry of Education Fine Arts Exhibition) in 1907, in which he won an award. He went on to win many other awards at the Bunten exhibitions and the exhibitions of its successor organizations, the Teiten (Imperial Academy of Fine Arts) and Shin Bunten along with exhibitions of the Japan Arts Institute (Nihon Bijutsuin) and the post-war 1946 Nitten (Japan Fine Arts Exhibition). Along with his work in printmaking, the Imperial Court commissioned paintings by him. Tensen was a member of the Futaba kai artist...

Umewaka Shrine, from an untitled series of prints depicting Tokyo. A woman braces her umbrella against the rain and a man waits out the storm next to his jinriksha in this view of th...