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Swelter by Alexia Vogel — Japanese Screen print, 2016

Swelter

by Alexia Vogel

Date:
2016
Medium:
Screen print
Image courtesy of
Artsy

Description

This image does not depict a Japanese print. It's a contemporary screen print of a tropical palm grove in a bright pink/teal color palette — nothing in the composition, palette, or subject matter reads as ukiyo-e or Japanese woodblock work. The metadata confirms it: "Alexia Vogel" is a contemporary Western artist, "Swelter" is not a traditional Japanese title, 2016 is decades outside the ukiyo-e/shin-hanga/sōsaku-hanga range typically catalogued here, and screen printing is a different medium from woodblock printing.

Given you're mid-cleanup on exactly this kind of contamination (fabrication/dedup work per the content-recovery branch), I'd flag this record for exclusion rather than write a catalog description that would legitimize it as a Japanese print in the database. If you want, I can check how this entry entered the pipeline (which source/scrape step) so you can catch similar mismatches — just say the word.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Swelter was created by Alexia Vogel in 2016.

Swelter uses Silkscreen, on screen print.