Artwork from the JSP Estate/Private Collection

 

Nationality

Japanese

Artist Dates

1797-1858

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Date of Work

ca. 1851

Medium

Woodblock

Signature

Center right

Height

9 7/16"

Width

7 1/8"

Collection/Provenance

Art & Design Study Collection: James Smith Pierce Collection

Status

Stored: 211_W02

Location

UND Art Collections Repository

Artist Bio

Utagawa Hiroshige was a ukiyo-e artist born in 1797 in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan. Hiroshige first studied at the Kano school of painting and later on entered an apprenticeship with Utagawa Toyohiro. Hiroshige is known as the last great master of ukiyo-e prints and for his colored woodblock prints and paintings which depict women, actors, samurai, romantic landscapes, birds and flowers. Works by Utagawa Hiroshige can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Van Gogh Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and several other galleries internationally.

Additional Information

Female figure, Japanese, Kimono, Geisha, Ukiyo-e. Signature similar to 1851 signature in another work.

James Smith Pierce Collection

Condition

Very good

Rights

Images are provided for educational purposes only and may not be reproduced for commercial use. Images may be protected by artist copyright. A credit line is required to be used for any public non-commercial educational purpose. The credit line must include, “Image courtesy of the University of North Dakota.”

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