Evening Calm
by Ansei Uchima
- Date:
- 1963
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
by Ansei Uchima
$500–$4,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Uchima's luminous landscape prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese prints and modern American art.
Evening Calm (1963) is a color woodblock print capturing the atmospheric stillness that settles over landscape at the close of day, when wind drops, water flattens, and the last light compresses into a narrow band at the horizon. Uchima renders this transitional moment through graduated color — the slow shift from warm residual daylight to cool advancing dusk — applied in the thin, translucent layers that define his printing technique. The calm of the title is not emptiness but a particular quality of suspended activity, the landscape holding its breath between the energy of day and the deep quiet of night.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
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1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Evening Calm was created by Ansei Uchima (内間安瑆) in 1963.
Evening Calm depicts night scenes.
