Cloth Drying
- Date:
- 1968
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 25.7 × 44.3 cm
- Source:
Lengths of cloth hang drying in a Kyoto courtyard or along a street front in this 1968 print by Karhu, their geometric patterns creating a textile-within-a-print composition that plays on the visual complexity of pattern layered on pattern. The drying cloth motif was a natural subject for a printmaker whose medium was itself a textile-derived craft, and Karhu exploits the opportunity to investigate how bold, flat color patterns interact across a two-dimensional surface. The print has an unusual graphic energy within his early body of work.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Cloth Drying was created by Clifton Karhu in 1968.
Cloth Drying depicts urban scenes and daily life.
Cloth Drying measures 25.7 × 44.3 cm (Oban format).
