Cloth Drying
- Date:
- 1968
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 25.7 × 44.3 cm
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
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.
More Prints by Clifton Karhu
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A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)
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View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
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Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
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Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
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).