TotalCount
- Date:
- ca. 1923.
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- robynbuntin
$1,500–$10,000. Common subjects: $1,500–$3,000. Key value factors: Bartlett's Watanabe-published prints of India and Southeast Asia are most valued. His vivid tropical colors distinguish his work.
This oban woodblock print, bearing the title "TotalCount," appears to be a database or cataloguing artifact rather than an intentional artwork title, created around 1923. Such entries occasionally appear when collection management systems export metadata alongside actual artwork records. The work itself belongs to Bartlett's body of Asian travel prints, produced during the period when he was issuing some of his finest color woodblock compositions from his base in Hawaii.
Bartlett's prints from this era typically depict scenes from India, Japan, Java, or Hawaii, subjects drawn from the extensive travels that made him one of the most geographically wide-ranging artists in the woodblock tradition. Regardless of the titling confusion, the print reflects the technical skill Bartlett developed through his collaboration with Japanese printers, combining Western compositional sensibilities with the precision and luminosity of the traditional Japanese woodblock process.
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.
TotalCount was created by Charles W. Bartlett in ca. 1923..
TotalCount depicts landscapes and travel scenes.
