Hata Gate - Peking

 

Katharine Jowett

  1890 - 1965 (biography)

c. 1925  

color linocut 

8 1/16 x 5 11/16" image size 

pencil, lower right 

not stated; presumed small 

pencil titled, lower left 

 

antique-white, soft wove 

published 

artist 

17380 

SOLD

This is the Hata Men Gate in the Tartar Wall at the Chienmen Station, Beijing, China. Katharine Jowett is thought to have only produced around 20 prints, and of those very few were numbered editions. Her prints were different from traditional Japanese woodcuts and the woodcuts of her contemporaries in that she didn't use a keyblock; instead, she layered the colors on top of one another, producing a unique rich tone throughout.

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