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Two Crows Flying Across the Orange Glow of Sunset

Two Crows Flying Across the Orange Glow of Sunset

Date20th century
Dimensionsoverall: 9 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (24.1 x 25.1 cm)
Mediumcolor woodblock print
ClassificationPrints
Credit LineGift of H. A. Fee
Object number
1953.162XX
Not on View
Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, For the Birds, April 13-October 14, 2012.Label TextMost famous for his work as a lacquerer, 19th-century artist Shibata Zeshin was also a painter and designer of woodcut prints in a naturalistic style influenced by Western art. His bold sense of design is epitomized in this print of crows flying across an orange sky at sunset, their swift movement emphasized by the cropped composition.

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