$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.
White Mountains (1963) is a color woodblock print depicting mountain terrain under snow or in bright atmospheric conditions that bleach the peaks to near-white. The title may reference the White Mountains of New Hampshire — a range Uchima could have visited from New York — or a more generalized vision of mountains drained of color by altitude, snow, or intense light. The challenge of depicting white mountains in a print medium is fundamentally a challenge of subtlety: the artist must articulate form, shadow, and spatial depth within a narrow tonal range near the top of the value scale, using the barest modulations of off-white, pale blue, and warm gray to define ridgelines and slopes.
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.
White Mountains was created by Ansei Uchima (内間安瑆) in 1963.
White Mountains depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and mountains.
