Heron in Rain

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Heron in Rain

Artist Ohara Shoson (Japanese, 1877-1945)

Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962)

Date1928

Dimensionsoverall: 15 1/2 x 10 3/8 in. (39.4 x 26.4 cm)
image: 14 5/16 x 9 5/16 in. (36.3 x 23.6 cm)

Mediumcolor woodblock print

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Hubert D. Bennett

Object number

1939.273

Not on View

DescriptionEmbossing.

Label TextPerhaps the most stylized of Ohara Koson’s prints with its almost abstract design and its striking contrast of black and white, this is also one of the artist’s most popular images. In the feathers of the bird, the printmaker used the technique of gauffrage—a form of embossing with the design imprinted into the paper without the use of ink.Published ReferencesPutney, Carolyn M., Kendall H. Brown, Koyama Shuko, and Paul Binnie, Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2013. repr. (col.) pp. 225.Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, A Special Exhibition of Modern Japanese Prints, March 2-- March 30, 1930, repr. pl. 190.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, For the Birds, April 13-October 14, 2012.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, October 4, 2013-January 1, 2014.