A small bird perches amid cascading autumn ivy

Two bare grey tree trunks rise at a slight diagonal, hung with a long cascade of ivy in shades of burnt orange, red, and pale gold. A small brown-and-white bird perches where the trunks meet, its head tilted down toward the leaves below. Further pale trunks recede into a soft grey ground behind. The artist's early signature, Koson, and a red seal appear at right, beside the ivy.

Ohara Koson (1877–1945) was the leading bird-and-flower (kachō-ga) artist of the shin-hanga movement. Trained in Kanazawa and Tokyo in the Shijō painting tradition, he designed prints from around 1900, first for export publishers and from 1926 for Watanabe Shōzaburō under the name Shōson. Herons in snow, crows on a branch, goldfish and sparrows are drawn with a naturalist's precision and printed with soft gradations and embossed feathers. His prints are held by the Rijksmuseum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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