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THBHiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) Japanese, Woodblock Print
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 19, 2025
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Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) Japanese, Woodblock Print. Shows a beautiful, tranquil lake. Title handwritten in English in pencil bottom left: "A Garden in Okoyama." Signed in pencil in English bottom right. Kanji on the left side of the image and in the print lower right. Symbols pressed into paper below the signature. Framing label on back.
Overall Size: 20 3/8 X 13 in.
Sight Size: 15 1/2 X 8 1/4 in.
#4918 .
Hiroshi Yoshida was born Hiroshi Ueda on September 19th, 1876 in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, in Kyushu, Japan. At the age of 15 he was adopted by the Yoshida family after his talent for painting was discovered by Kasaburo Yoshida, a junior high school art teacher, and studied with the Kyoto yōga-ka (Western-style painters) Tamura Sōryū and Miyake Kokki. He moved to Tokyo at the age of 17 and entered the Fudōsha, a painting school sponsored by the yōga-ka Koyama Shōtarō, becoming a member of the Meiji Bijutsukai (Meiji Art Society), the first Western-style art organization in Japan. Yoshida made numerous trips around the world, with the aim of getting to know different artistic expressions and making works of different landscapes, being particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style, including the Taj Mahal, the Swiss Alps, the Grand Canyon, and other National Parks in the United States. In 1899 Yoshida had his first American exhibition at the Detroit Museum of Art (now the Detroit Institute of Art), and the following year he had an exhibition with Hachiro Nakagawa at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This rapidly led to a touring exhibition in Washington, D.C., Providence, France, Great Britain, Germany, and Italy. He exhibited his work at the Paris Exposition of 1900, for which he received a commendation, and showed a new series at the St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904, for which he received a bronze medal. Around this time, Yoshida and his fellow painters founded the Taiheiyōgakai (Pacific Art Society) the successor to the Meiji Bijutsukai. He became known as a mountain painter in Japan, and spent about half of each year on “sketching journeys.” He founded the Nihon Sangakugaka Kyōkai (Japan Mountain Painting Society) in his later years, and as a mountaineer he set a record for climbing the mountains of the Japanese Alps every summer until old age prevented him from doing so, creating extremely large paintings and woodblock prints after returning home. In 1920 Yoshida presented his first woodcut at the Shōzaburō Watanabe Print Workshop, but their collaboration was brief due to Watanabe’s shop burning down due to the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. With the few remaining works he had left after the disaster Yoshida traveled to the United States to sell them, and he continued to hold touring exhibitions starting from a personal studio he established in Boston in 1925. For the next two decades he produced multiple series of view of Europe, America, and the Near and Far East, some 250 woodblock prints in total. In 1939 Hiroshi Yoshida wrote Japanese Wood-Block Printing, a comprehensive guide to the craft of woodblock printing in the shin-hanga style. At the age of 73 he became ill on a sketching trip to Isu and Nagaoka, returning to Tokyo to convalesce, but the illness overwhelmed him and he passed away in his home on April 5th, 1950. To this day his works are some of the most highly sought from any Japanese artist from the 20th Century or earlier, partially because his pieces were characterized by an unprecedented layering of colors through multiple prints, with an average of 30 layers and often close to 100. As a result the vibrancy of his colors and his faithful depictions of the atmosphere of landscapes was unparalleled, with his works displayed in many museums worldwide including the British Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.
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