WOODBLOCK PRINTS PRODUCED BY WESTERN ARTISTS
Explore some of the finest woodblock prints produced in Japan by Western artists available for sale. These western artists worked as part of the Shin Hanga or “new print” movement which was initiated by the woodblock publisher Shozaburo Watanabe. Shin Hanga were revisions of earlier Ukiyo-e or 17th-to-19th–century Japanese prints, inheriting the various artistic subjects made popular during the Edo period. Inspired by Ukiyo-e design, Watanabe originally hired Fritz Capelari, as his first Shin Hanga soon followed by Shinsui.
Woodblock Prints Produced in Japan by Western Artists
HOW ARE THESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS CREATED?
Like Ukiyo-e, Shin Hanga produced by western artists were executed using a collaborative system where the publisher, such as Watanabe, hired the artist to produce a design and artisans to carve the woodblocks and printers to print the finished work. Notable Western artists of the Shin Hanga movement we carry include Charles Bartlett, Fritz Capelari, Helen Hyde, Paul Jacoulet, Elizabeth Keith, Bertha Lum, and Lillian Miller. Significant Shin Hanga collections featuring Western artists have been assembled by notable private collections as well as public institutions the world over.
Fine museum-quality examples of Shin Hanga made by Western artists are scarce and we, at Collecting Japanese Prints, are honored to offer you the very best the market has to offer.
1967
$2,800