Reservoir
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
A reservoir — an artificial body of water constrained by embankments and purposes — offers Kitaoka a landscape subject at once man-made and elemental. The still surface mirrors light and sky while embankment edges impose geometry on the natural setting. Kitaoka was drawn throughout his career to water in its many forms, and the reservoir's combination of ordered geometry and reflective depth suited his interest in subjects that exist at the boundary between the human-shaped and the natural world.
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.
Reservoir was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Reservoir depicts landscapes and rivers & lakes.
