Sunflower

 

Rokushu Mizufune

  1912 - 1980 (biography)

c. 1960  

color woodcut 

16 11/16 x 15 3/4" image size 

pencil signed, lower right; signed in the block, lower center 

26 of 30  

pencil title, editioning, and Japanese annotations in lower margin 

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, acc. no. 2010.10.14 

heavy, soft cream wove 

published 

artist 

JHH101 

SOLD

This color woodcut is heavily inked using a mixture of watercolor and gofun (a white pigment made from shells to create opacity), which are printed several times to make them more vivid. The white and yellow inks in this composition feature a glossy finish, which sit on top of the paper and give it a dimensionality that resembles a screenprint. The paper has been trimmed at the top and sides to the image while leaving the bottom margin intact. It's unclear if this was done by the artist.