Harbor Elegy
by Ansei Uchima
- Date:
- 1956
- 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.
Harbor Elegy (1956) is a color woodblock print that treats a port or waterfront not as a scene of commerce and activity but as a site of loss and remembrance. An elegy is a poem of mourning, and the harbor setting — where departures are visible, where ships diminish toward the horizon, where those left behind stand watching — provides a natural landscape for such feeling. Uchima's abstract rendering transforms the physical elements of a harbor (water, piers, distant vessels, reflected light) into a tonal meditation, the colors muted and the forms softened as though seen through the blur of emotional distance.
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n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Harbor Elegy was created by Ansei Uchima (内間安瑆) in 1956.
Harbor Elegy depicts landscapes and seascapes.
