$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 1953, Muro is a color woodblock print whose title may reference the town of Muro on the Kii Peninsula in southern Honshu or the Japanese word for a sheltered space or chamber. Chizuko Yoshida produced this print during an early phase of her career when she was still defining the abstract direction that would characterize her mature work. The color woodblock medium at this date in her practice occupies a transitional zone between the representational landscapes associated with the Yoshida family name and the fully abstract compositions she would develop in subsequent decades. Whether the title refers to a place or a concept, the print reflects Chizuko's emerging interest in how woodblock printing can express spatial and atmospheric qualities beyond literal description.
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.
Muro was created by Chizuko Yoshida (吉田千鶴子) in 1953.
Muro depicts landscapes and abstract.
