Two figures on a pale path beneath a snow-laden tree

A watercolour in pale blue, cream and warm ochre. A large tree with a scarred trunk stands right of centre, its bare branches carrying clumps of snow and its crown filling the top of the sheet as a soft pale mass. Two figures walk away along a sandy path, one in a blue jacket and ochre skirt with a smaller figure behind. A wooden notice board on posts stands beside the trunk, with a low fence and stones along the right, and two further trees and a distant roofline show through the haze at the left. Signed “H. Yoshida” at the lower right. The sheet carries no title or date.

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876–1950) trained as a painter long before he became famous for woodblock prints. He studied Western-style oil and watercolour painting in Kyoto and Tokyo, exhibited in Detroit, Boston and Washington in the 1900s, and travelled through Europe, North America and Asia painting on the road. The prints he began issuing from his own studio in 1925 grew directly out of this painting practice, which is why they carry effects of light and weather that traditional woodblock rarely attempted. Work by him is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.