$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: As a member of the Yoshida printmaking dynasty, Chizuko's work benefits from family name recognition. Abstract nature prints are most collected.
Created in 1995 as an artist's proof, Ice Floe, Utoro depicts the drift ice that arrives each winter along the coast of Utoro, a fishing town on the northeastern shore of Hokkaido facing the Sea of Okhotsk. The ryuhyo, or drift ice, travels south from Russian waters and transforms the coastline into an arctic landscape of broken white sheets and blue-green water. Chizuko combines photoetching and color woodblock printing to render this subject, using the photographic precision of etching for the ice's fractured surfaces and the woodblock's broader color fields for sea and sky. The Hokkaido coastline in winter is one of Japan's most extreme landscapes, and Chizuko's choice to depict it reflects her interest in nature at its most elemental and abstract.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Ice Floe, Utoro (Utoro ryūhyō) was created by Chizuko Yoshida (吉田千鶴子) in 1995.
Ice Floe, Utoro (Utoro ryūhyō) uses Etching, on photoetching and color woodblock print; artist’s proof.
Ice Floe, Utoro (Utoro ryūhyō) depicts snow scenes, seascapes, and winter.
