Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [074]

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Title Block printing: Katsushika Hokusai [074]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 61, Hokusai and other Japanese Printers, 84
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1973
Subject San Diego Museum of Art--Photographs; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego--Photographs; Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Photographs; Block printing--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Photographs; Tōkaidō (Japan)--Art--Photographs; Thatched roofs--Art--Photographs; Men--Art--Photographs; Landscapes--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe
Spatial Coverage San Diego (Calif.)
Description Photograph of print by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849); possibly part of a series; print appears to depict several people working on a thatched roof
Caption on Slide Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849), SDFAG, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery Collection, 50.32.30
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: "Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, October or November 1760 - May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s."--Wikipedia. Note: "In 1978, Trustees changed the name of the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego to The San Diego Museum of Art."--San Diego Museum of Art website. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Hokusai Tokaido Series (1760-1849) SDFAG San Diego Fine Arts Gallery Collection 50.32.30"
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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ARK ark:/87278/s6902mst
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Tierney, Lennox; Tierney, Catherine
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 340207
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6902mst