Landscape
Artist
Oda Kazuma
(Japanese, 1881–1956)
Date1935
Mediumcolor lithograph
Dimensions38.2 x 53.4 cm (15 1/16 x 21 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineAsiatic Art Members' Council Matching Fund
Object number1989.155
Label TextOda Kazuma was one of the founders of the Nippon sosaku hanga kyokai (The Japanese Creative Print Society) established in 1918. This group believed that creative printmaking required the artist’s control of the entire print process, from designing, carving, to printing. Their attitude reflects late 19th century French ideas on artist's prints and is in contrast to the collaborative approach of traditional Japanese printmaking. While all the other pioneers of sosaku hanga worked in woodblock, Kazuma devoted himself to lithograph. This print is an imaginary hilly landscape. Dated 1935, it is one of the earliest non-commercial color0lithographs made in Japan.On View
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