Flowers in Vase (Summer) by Bakufu Ohno

Flowers in Vase (Summer) by Bakufu Ohno

Flowers in Vase (Summer)

Bakufu Ohno

Title

Flowers in Vase (Summer)

 
Artist

Bakufu Ohno

 
Year
1952  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
15 7/16 x 10 11/16" image size 
Signature
block signed in English, lower right, artist's seal, lower right. 
Edition Size
not stated 
Annotations
artist's seal in left margin 
Reference
 
Paper
antique-white japanese paper 
State
published 
Publisher
Kyoto Hanga 
Inventory ID
19733 
Price
SOLD
Description
Bakufu Ohno was born in Tokyo. He moved to Kansai after the great Kantou earthquake in 1923. Ohno exhibited oil paintings at Teiten in 1929 and he was an honorary member of the Hyogo Prefecture Academy of Fine Arts, as well as a member of Taiheiyogakai. Ohno created many landscape and fish prints, including the Great Japanese Fish Picture Collection in 1940, which was published by Kyoto Hanga-in, while the blocks were carved by Matsuda and Kikuda and printed by Shinagawa, Nagae, Uchida and Ohno.