Above Yamashita's by Micah Schwaberow
Above Yamashita's
Micah Schwaberow
Title
Above Yamashita's
Artist
Micah Schwaberow
1948 - 2022 (biography)Year
1982 /printed 1996
Technique
color woodblock
Image Size
4 5/8 x 16 1/2" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
21/187 (third campaign, 1996)
Annotations
pencil titled, dated and numbered; artist's seal lower right
Reference
p. 1Jaramillo, "Festival of Light: The Color Woodblock Prints of Micah Schwaberow," illustrated p. 17; edition information p.161
Paper
yamaguchi kizukibosho
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
25463
Price
$550.00
Description
A blue, mountainous horizon is silhouetted against rosy dusk light, as a figure carrying a bundle on their back approaches a Japanese farmhouse in this early Micah Schwaberow, “Above Yamashita’s.”
The house belonged to a friend with whom he lived during his studies with Toshi Yoshida in Nagai, Japan. Schwaberow’s mastery of light was a staple of his work from the beginning of his career, coaxing gentle tonality from the woodblocks with as much deftness as any watercolorist.