Accession Number
1939.3

Title
An Evening in a Hot Spring

Artist(s)
Hiroshi Yoshida

Artist Nationality
Japanese (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
circa 1930-1950

Medium & Support
color woodblock print on paper

Dimensions
10 11/16 in. x 15 15/16 in. ( 27.2 cm x 40.5 cm )

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Label copy
Gallery Rotation Fall 2011
Yoshida Hiroshi
Japan, 1876–1950
An Evening in a Hot Spring
ca. 1930–50
Showa period (1926–89)
Color woodblock print on paper
Museum Purchase, 1939.3

Subject matter
Yoshida Hiroshi, living during the time when the Creative Print (sôsaku hanga) movement was gaining strength in the 1920s and 1930s, was not a member of the Creative Print movement. Unlike those sôsaku hanga artists who did everything themselves, Yoshida Hiroshi had carvers and printers produce his prints. Yet, unlike the traditional Ukiyo-e artists, he assumed the supreme authority over the production process, supervising the carvers and painters.
 
With his training in Western-style painting with oil, Yoshida Hiroshi had incorporated such skills into his woodblock printing and created unprecedented and original prints of the time. Landscape was a major theme of his works; he depicted not only scenes of Japan but also those of abroad.

Physical Description
This work depicts an evening scene in a hot spring.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Primary Object Type
color print

Additional Object Classification(s)
Print

Collection Area
Asian

Rights
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Keywords
Spring and Autumn Annals
buildings (structures)
evening
reflections (perceived properties)
water (inorganic material)