Collection · 11 prints
Clouds and Mountains — The Majestic Landscapes of Hiroshi Yoshida
Hiroshi Yoshida climbed before he printed. He was a mountaineer — a member of the Japanese Alpine Club — and it shows in these views in a way it never quite does in work made from photographs. He knew what the light does at altitude in the hour before the cloud comes down.
Eleven peaks, cut and printed in the shin-hanga method: Yosemite and Rainier, Moraine Lake and the Matterhorn, Fuji from two directions, and the Japanese mountains he knew on foot. Yoshida pulled his blocks through impression after impression, one colour at a time, until the air itself has weight.
Archival 12-ink giclée on Hahnemühle German Etching paper, hand-framed in solid wood. From $165 CAD.
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Note: Framed prints require slightly longer production time
The sheer granite face of El Capitan fills the sheet, lit pale cream and apricot, with a rim of rust and pink where the light catches the summit against a clear blue sky. Tall dark firs stand in front of the right half of the cliff, and below them a still blue-green pool reflects the trees beside a lilac-grey sandbar. Yoshida made the design after travelling through the United States, and it belongs to his six-print United States series of 1925, the first set of designs he produced in his own Tokyo studio after leaving the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō.
The original: a colour woodblock print, 1925, signed in pencil and bearing Yoshida's jizuri ("self-printed") seal, which marked impressions printed in his own studio. Impressions are held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin.
Hiroshi Yoshida (1876–1950) trained as a painter in Western-style oils and watercolour before turning to woodblock prints. After working briefly with the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō in 1920–22, he set up his own studio, employing highly trained carvers and printers while supervising every stage himself. Over his career he produced 259 print designs.
Each print is a giclée, printed to order. Unframed prints are made on Hahnemühle German Etching, a 310gsm matte fine-art paper. Framed prints are printed on 200gsm matte fine-art paper and arrive in a handmade solid-wood frame with low-reflection glazing, ready to hang. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.
