About This Print
A bleak but beautiful view of a Hokkaido river in the dead of winter. This print was included in an 2010 exhibition of work at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, titled Art in Hokkaido: People and Nature 北海道の美術 北の自然と人々.
Revisiting Modern Japanese Prints: Selected Works from the Richard F. Grott Family Collection,
Helen M. Nagata, Helen Merritt, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, 2007, p. 26.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1029 |
| Title | Frozen River (kōru kawa 凍る河) |
| Series | n/a |
| Artist | Kitaoka Fumio (1918-2007) |
| Signature | pencil signed by artist in English below the image |
| Seal | unsealed |
| Publication Date | 1971 |
| Edition | artist proof (editioned at 100 prints) |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | good - handling creases primarily visible in margins |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 18 7/8 x 24 7/8 in. (47.9 x 63.2 cm) |
| H x W Image | 15 5/8 x 21 1/2 in. (39.7 x 54.6 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Art Gallery of New South Wales 330.1995 (ed. 64 of 100) |
| Reference Literature | Revisiting Modern Japanese Prints: Selected Works from the Richard F. Grott Family Collection, Helen M. Nagata, Helen Merritt, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, 2007, p. 26 |
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