Corner House-Fukuoka
- Date:
- 1963
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 33.3 × 42.1 cm
- Source:
A corner house in Fukuoka — Japan's port city on the southern island of Kyushu — is Karhu's subject in this early 1963 print, one of his first architectural studies, made while he was still developing the visual vocabulary that would define his mature work. The Fukuoka townscape differs from Kyoto in its bolder, more commercially assertive character, and Karhu responds to it with a slightly harder compositional structure than he would bring to his later, more intimate Kyoto subjects. The print is an early chapter in a lifelong conversation between an American eye and a Japanese urban environment.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Corner House-Fukuoka was created by Clifton Karhu in 1963.
Corner House-Fukuoka depicts urban scenes and architecture.
Corner House-Fukuoka measures 33.3 × 42.1 cm (Oban format).
