A Clear Day
by Ansei Uchima
- Date:
- 1963
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
by Ansei Uchima
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Uchima's luminous landscape prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese prints and modern American art.
A Clear Day (1963) is a color woodblock print that distills the experience of unclouded atmosphere into abstract form. Uchima, working from his New York studio but drawing on memories of Japanese light and landscape, reduces the subject to essential tonal relationships — the way unobstructed sunlight flattens distances, bleaches color, and creates a visual clarity that feels almost spatial. His [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) method (designing, carving, and printing entirely by his own hand) gives the color fields a handmade warmth distinct from mechanical reproduction, each layer of pigment pressed into the paper with the specific pressure of the artist's [baren](/glossary/baren).
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A Clear Day was created by Ansei Uchima (内間安瑆) in 1963.
A Clear Day depicts landscapes and abstract.
