The Grand Canyon (from the United States Series)

 

Hiroshi Yoshida

  1876 - 1950 (biography)

1925  

color woodcut 

9 13/16 x 14 5/8" image 

brush signed, lower left ; red jizuri, right margin 

edition about 50 

titled Japanese in left margin 

Yoshida 11; United States Series #3 

heavy cream hosho 

published 

artist 

CAAL108 

SOLD

"The Grand Canyon", one of Yoshida's signature woodcuts, from the United States Series, was done during Yoshida's third trip to the US in 1923-24. This impression is from the first printing of 50, cut on blocks of mountain cherry by Maeda Yujuro. Two subsequent editions followed with slightly different, more subtle, coloring. This impression is brush signed, as usual. It was in the second printing of this that Yoshida began to add his jizuri in the margin, indicating he had supervised the publishing of the work and adding a pencil signature for Western collectors.