Unknown, snowy street
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$400–$3,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Okuyama's prints are relatively affordable. Bold, well-preserved examples are most valued.
"Unknown, Snowy Street" depicts an unspecified Japanese urban or village street under snow — the familiar features of a street transformed by the white covering into a composition of simplified forms, the buildings and road markings softened to essentials. Snowy city streets in Japanese art carried a particular quality of quiet and suspension: the noise of traffic muffled, the usual visual complexity reduced by the white covering, the human scale of the street suddenly more intimate. Okuyama's treatment of this subject reflects his equal facility with urban and rural landscape subjects.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Unknown, snowy street was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Unknown, snowy street depicts urban scenes and snow scenes.
