Description: Beautiful vivid woodblock print by Joichi Hoshi. Print is signed and dated in the right corner. It measures 5" x 15" image size. Great condition. Handsomely framed with a custom frame, linen liner, gold trim. Looks like frame may be original. Frame measures 10.5" x 19" From AskArt Archives: Joichi Hoshi was born in 1913 in Niigata, Japan. He died on June 17, 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. After teaching in Taiwan for 13 years, Joichi Hoshi returned to Japan in 1946 and began to study oil painting at Musashino College of Fine Arts. He graduated in 1956, at age 49.Later he taught himself woodblock printmaking. He started his printmaking career by depicting star constellations and galaxies. In the early 1970s, he began to specialize in images of trees. He is considered the "father" of Japanese tree prints. The tree prints are intricately made using the technique of the traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking and are sometimes refined with silver or gold prigments.Joichi Hoshi exhibited at the Tokyo International Print Biennials in 1959, 1961 and 1963 and at the International Print Biennal of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1967. There are limited edition and open edition prints by Joichi Hoshi. For the limited editions, a typical edition size is between 100 and 200. The limited edition prints are signed, numbered, dated and sometimes titled in pencil.CollectionsArt Institute of Chicago, ILCleveland Museum of Art, OhioHaifa Museum, IsraelMuseum of Modern Art, New YorkNational Museum of Far Eastern Art, BerlinNational Museum of Modern Art, TokyoRockefeller Foundation, New YorkSources:Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, "Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975", published by University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X.Mary & Norman Tolman, Collecting Modern Japanese Prints Then & Now, Charles E.Tuttle Company, Tokyo, 1994.website www.artelino.com
Price: 599 USD
Location: Dedham, Massachusetts
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Artist: Joichi Hoshi
Size: Medium
Signed: Yes
Framing: Framed
Subject: Landscape
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1973
Item Height: 5 in
Theme: Trees
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Production Technique: Woodcut Printing
Item Width: 15 in
Time Period Produced: 1970-1979
