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Untitled [Two children with a snow shovel]

Saitō Kiyoshi

Artwork Details

Untitled [Two children with a snow shovel]
mid 20th century
Saitō Kiyoshi
color woodblock print on paper
16 1/8 in x 11 in (40.96 cm x 27.94 cm)
Bequest of Alva Gordon Sink
1998/2.32

Description

Gallery Rotation Fall 2011
Saitô Kiyoshi
Japan, 1907–1997
Untitled [Two children with a snow shovel]
mid-20th century
Showa period (1926–89)
Color woodblock print on paper
Bequest of Alva Gordon Sink, 1998/2.32

Subject Matter:

This image evokes winter in the deep "snow country" on the northwest coast of Japan, facing the Japan sea.

Physical Description:

This print depicts two children in the snow with a snow shovel.

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