$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.
Summer Stream (1962) is a color lithograph — a departure from Uchima's primary woodblock medium into the planographic printing technique where the image is drawn on a flat stone or plate. Lithography allows for smoother tonal gradations and more fluid drawing than woodblock, and Uchima may have chosen this medium to capture the specific quality of a summer stream: the languid current, the warm water heavy with dissolved minerals, the reflections softened by the season's intense overhead light. The shift from woodblock to lithograph also changes the physical texture of the print, replacing the carved line's crispness with the drawn mark's spontaneity.
Nikko Chuzenjiko
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Niigata Gosaibori
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Summer Stream was created by Ansei Uchima (内間安瑆) in 1962.
Summer Stream uses Lithograph, on color lithograph.
Summer Stream depicts rivers & lakes and summer.
Summer Stream measures 38.8 × 51 cm.
