Corner House-Fukuoka
- Date:
- 1963
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 33.3 × 42.1 cm
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
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.
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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)"
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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
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Featured in Collections
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Frequently Asked Questions
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).