About This Print
This charming large print of farmer and his daughter tending to a red cow aptly demonstrates Merritt's comments on Senpan:
His prints are refreshing and seemingly naive...His innate feelings, transformed into cheerful colors and gay patterns, created a unique and personal record of the Japan he loved.1
1 Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints - The Early Years, Helen Merritt, University of Hawaii Press, 1998, p. 222.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1415 |
| Title/Description |  left: label pasted to verso giving artist's name, name of the work and date of production 前川千帆作 [work of Maekawa Senpan] 海岸の赤牛 [Red Cow at the Seashore] 昭和卅二年制作 [production Showa 32nd year] |
| Series | |
| Artist | Maekawa Senpan (1888-1960) |
| Signature | not signed; 前川千帆作 printed on label verso |
| Seal | not sealed |
| Publication Date | 昭和卅二年制作 1957 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - slight toning; handling creases in margin |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative prints) |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 16 3/4 x 21 in. (42.5 x 53.3 cm ) |
| H x W Image | 13 1/8 x 17 3/8 in. (33.3 x 44.1 cm) |
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| Collections This Print |
2/9/2019
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