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.
Mexican Valley (1966) is a woodblock print created as an artist's proof from the Showa period, depicting a landscape encountered during travel in Mexico. The broad, arid valleys of central Mexico — ringed by volcanic peaks, divided by maguey rows, and lit by intense high-altitude sun — offered Uchima a landscape radically different from both his Japanese heritage and his New York surroundings. The artist's proof designation indicates this is an early pull from the block, made before or outside the numbered edition, often showing the artist testing color choices and registration. Uchima's abstract rendering reduces the valley to essential planes of earth, sky, and distant mountain.
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.
Mexican Valley (Artist's Proof), Shôwa period, 1966 was created by Ansei Uchima (内間安瑆).
Mexican Valley (Artist's Proof), Shôwa period, 1966 depicts landscapes.
