White Heron and Irises, Utagawa Hiroshige

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Utagawa Hiroshige, White Heron and Irises
Utagawa Hiroshige, White Heron and Irises
Utagawa Hiroshige
White Heron and Irises
mid 1830s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Hiroshige
1797–1858
White Heron and Irises, mid 1830s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Where object was made: Japan
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 377 x 166 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 14 13/16 x 6 9/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 379 x 166 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 15/16 x 6 9/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial
Accession number: 1928.7414
Not on display
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Archive Label Sept-May 1993: Although Hiroshige is best known for his landscape series, he also designed some flower and bird albums. This print came from such an album, produced during his middle period in the 1830s. Similar to flower, bird, and animal subjects by French artists...Hiroshige's aim is not to make a realistic nature study. For example, he does not depict the bird as a three-dimensionally rounded object occupying volume in space. Rather, the Japanese and French artists of this period used their subjects as a starting point towards abstraction. Eliminating details and focusing on the contour, the artists arranged the more two-dimensional shapes with an eye to the pattern and design on the paper.

Exhibitions

exhibition (name unknown)
1978

Citations

The University of Kansas Museum of Art. The Register of the Museum of Art: Glimpses of Fugitive Pleasures -- Japanese prints in the museum collection. Introduction and catalogue by Carla M. Zainie 5, no. 2, Spring (1975):