An Evening Moon
- Date:
- 1990–91
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 46.4 × 35.2 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
$500–$8,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Hagiwara's abstract works are collected by both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
An Evening Moon from 1990–91 renders the moonrise or high moon in Hagiwara's mature abstract-naturalistic style — the lunar disc surrounded by the atmospheric gradations that his multi-block color technique produced with particular sophistication. Unlike the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) artists' moonlight scenes, which rendered observed effects of moonlight on specific landscapes, Hagiwara's moon is a cosmic object approached on its own terms: a source of light, a form in the sky, a subject for sustained contemplation rather than atmospheric decoration.
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
An Evening Moon was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄) in 1990–91.
An Evening Moon depicts moonlight and night scenes.
An Evening Moon measures 46.4 × 35.2 cm.
