Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 118784
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- Artist / 作者
- Shima Tamami島 珠実
- Date / 年代
- 1959
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Showa / jaodb
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 437 × 600 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Art Open Database
- Published by / 公開者
- 森川ミドリ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Art Open Database
Catalog note / 解説
Saturday, 27 September 2008 Bidding is on a genuine Japanese woodblock print by Tamami Shima, titled "Bell Tower". Size is double oban, 17" by 24". The artist, a 1958 graduate of Women's College of Fine Arts in Tokyo, is noted for her particular skill with woodgrain to achieve effects. This fine piece has three types of woodgrain, a mottled effect in the plain foreground, a granular effect in the stone pavement, and a speckled effect in the clouds, showing breaks. Also of note is the use of the expressionist style caramel colored trees, which are, I believe hand applied and not part of the woodblock. The pigment on the trees is very heavy and shows brush marks. This print is pencil signed i…
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