purple house spitzack woodblock woodcut mokuhanga print printmaking washi seattle art

The upper portion of a house with a flared, flaring hip roof and a peaked dormer window fills the lower left of the composition, rendered in dark charcoal-grey against a pale cream sky with soft mottled texture and faint scratchy vertical marks. Multiple windows are visible—a pair in the dormer and three across the upper story—along with a small chimney or vent pipe at the roof's peak; a tiny red mark appears near the top of the dormer against the otherwise muted grey-and-cream palette. The composition is asymmetrical, with the architectural form pushed to the lower left and a large expanse of empty sky occupying the rest of the frame; this woodblock print is by Charles Spitzack, medium woodblock print, year unknown.