Information
Date : 1926
Size : O-ban
Impression : Very good
Condition : Very good
Detail : -
"12 Scenes of Tokyo" is a series of that whose motif is the scenery of the places in Tokyo. We see the title "12 scenes", but 14 artworks actually exist because there are 3 types of "Sumida River": "Sumida River", "Sumida River in the Fog", and "Sumida River, Evening".
He drew the same place, however, each work looks completely different attractive impressions.
When Yoshida Hiroshi was 23 years old, he went to the US with Nakagawa Hachiro and held an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In the next year, they succeeded the exhibition together.
Then his artworks are expressed that "Yoshida draws the air", and all paintings were sold out.
After that, he traveled all around the world and held successful exhibitions.
In 1920, Yoshida met Watanabe Shozaburo, and they began creating Yoshida's woodcut prints.
In addition, Yoshida established his own studio in 1925 and started publishing his woodblock print works.
Yoshida was famous in the US, thus his studio was used as the art salon of the occupation forces after WWⅡ. In 1945, just after the war ended, Mrs. MacArthur has also visited Yoshida's studio. The workshops and tours of the studio for the officers were often held. This episode shows us how famous he was and popular in the US.