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Grand Canyon - from the United States Series by Hiroshi Yoshida

Grand Canyon - from the United States Series by Hiroshi Yoshida

Grand Canyon - from the United States Series

Hiroshi Yoshida

Title

Grand Canyon - from the United States Series

 
Artist

Hiroshi Yoshida

  1876 - 1950 (biography)
Year
1925  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
9 3/4 x 14 5/8" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right margin; artist's black signature in lower left image; artist's red floral seal (F) in lower left 
Edition Size
unknown, from the second or third printing 
Annotations
titled in pencil, lower left; jizuri, left margin 
Reference
Hiroshi Yoshida 3; Yoshida 11; United States Series #3 
Paper
heavy cream hosho 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
COCO200 
Price
SOLD
Description

"The Grand Canyon", one of Yoshida's signature woodcuts, from the United States Series, was done during Yoshida's third trip to the US in 1923-24. The first edition was from an intital printing of 50, cut on blocks of mountain cherry by Maeda Yujuro.

Two subsequent editions followed with slightly different, more subtle, coloring, such as this impression, which is brush signed, as usual. It was in this second printing of this that Yoshida began to add his jizuri in the margin, indicating he had supervised the publishing of the work and adding a pencil signature for Western collectors.