Artist · 3 prints
Toshi Yoshida Prints
About Toshi Yoshida
Toshi Yoshida was a Japanese printmaker, born in Tokyo in 1911 and died in 1995. He was the eldest son of the landscape printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida, and he learned painting and woodblock printing in his father's family workshop, where they worked side by side. He also studied at the Taiheiyo Art School. As a boy he chose animals as his special subject, partly to set himself apart from his father.
After his father's death in 1950, Toshi Yoshida broke away from the family's realistic style and from the early 1950s made hundreds of abstract woodcuts, such as his Series of Black and White prints. In the 1970s he returned to nature, travelling to Africa and elsewhere to make prints of wild animals and birds, and he created a popular series of animal picture books for children. He also taught printmaking, founded a print academy in Tokyo and later an art centre in Miasa, Nagano, and showed his work in exhibitions around the world.
Toshi Yoshida prints: reproductions of woodblock prints of animals and plants by the Japanese printmaker Toshi Yoshida, son of Hiroshi Yoshida. Works in the collection include Black Panther, Tiger Head, Friendly Garden: Plum (1980) and Camouflaged Tigers (1985).
This selection concentrates on Yoshida's animal prints, especially big cats: a black panther, a tiger's head and a pair of camouflaged tigers. Friendly Garden: Plum adds one of his later nature subjects, flowering plum. The prints use clean outlines and flat areas of colour.
The animal prints suit living rooms, studies and children's rooms; the plum blossom suits bedrooms and quiet corners. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
