Block printing: Minor Japanese printmakers [006]

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Title Block printing: Minor Japanese printmakers [006]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 61, Hokusai and other Japanese Printers, 91
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1978
Subject Block printing--Photographs; Prints--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Photographs; Printmakers--Photographs; Men--Art--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Couples--Art--Photographs; Hugging--Art--Photographs; Japan; Art; Ukiyoe; Printmakers; Hugging
Keywords Sumizuri-e
Description Photograph of block print: Anonymous printmaker, sumizuri-e, possibly part of collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Caption on Slide Anonymous sumizuri-e, black lacquer used for black areas, Art Institute of Chicago.
Additional Information Image was scanned from (faded) color slide. Note: "Black-and-white compositions like this one are known as sumizuri-e because they were rubbed (suri) in ink (sumi) only."--The Floating World of Ukiyo-e, Library of Congress website. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Rights Management This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
ARK ark:/87278/s6086p7z
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 340070
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6086p7z
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