Prints: Katsushika Hokusai [004]

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Title Prints: Katsushika Hokusai [004]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Hokusai, 13
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1983
Subject Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849--Photographs; Prints--Photographs; Freer Gallery of Art--Photographs; Dogs--Art--Photographs; Puppies in art--Photographs; Snow--Art--Photographs; Winter--Art--Photographs; Trees--Art--Photographs; Pine--Art--Photographs; Japan; Art; Winter; Puppies
Spatial Coverage Washington (D.C.)
Description Photo shows a print by Japanese artist Hokusai Katsuhika, showing detail of puppies in the snow from a Japanese screen now on display at the Freer Gallery, Smithonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Caption on Slide Puppies in the Snow (detail from a Japanese screen), Edo Period, 1615-1868, Ukiyo-e school by Katsushika Hokusai, color on paper, 180.3 x 378 cm, Freer Gallery of Art Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
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
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/s6cc1ghm
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 330748
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cc1ghm
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