close-up of cream/tan, pink, and green flower against a maroon colored background; top part of blossom is cream/tan with brown veins and outline; pink and green interior; pea-green form extends from center to lower edge, surrounded by brighter green forms on each side; pea-green form swirls towards LL, with a bright yellow point extending from top of form; pink, cream, and green organic forms at LR

%C2%A9 Yoshida Fujio

Myōga, 1953

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The print is from a series created by Yoshida Fujio in the early 1950s, featuring close-up views of flowers common to the Japanese islands. Using traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques, her pictures of the delicate, swirling insides of flowers like irises, gladioluses, and wild ginger border on abstraction. Yoshida Fujio was among the first women Japanese painters to work in the Western style. She was also the first female artist in the celebrated Yoshida family of painters, a leading artistic family dating back to the early 1800s. After traveling throughout North America in the early 1900s, preparing numerous sketches and drawings that gained her wide acclaim within the United States, she returned to Japan. There, especially after the end of World War II in 1945, she focused on oil painting and woodblock printing.

Details
Title
Myōga
Artist Life
1888 - 1987
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2013.29.529
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close-up of cream/tan, pink, and green flower against a maroon colored background; top part of blossom is cream/tan with brown veins and outline; pink and green interior; pea-green form extends from center to lower edge, surrounded by brighter green forms on each side; pea-green form swirls towards LL, with a bright yellow point extending from top of form; pink, cream, and green organic forms at LR

© Yoshida Fujio

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