Light Snowfall
- Date:
- 1990–91
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 34.5 × 46.8 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Typical Price
$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.
Description
Light Snowfall (1990–91) renders the atmospheric quality of a light, early snowfall — flakes sparse enough that the landscape below remains visible through them, the white accumulation thin enough to show the underlying colors, the air clean and bright with the particular quality of snow-filtered light. Hagiwara's treatment of light snowfall differs from his good-snow and winter compositions in its emphasis on the tentative, provisional character of snow that might melt or continue, the weather's uncertainty conveyed through the composition's careful balance between white and the colors it half-obscures.
More Prints by Hideo Hagiwara
More Snow Scenes Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
Woodblock print
The Compound of the Tenman Shrine at Kameido in the Snow (Kameido Tenmangu keidai no yuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
Woodblock print
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Light Snowfall was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄) in 1990–91.
Light Snowfall depicts snow scenes.
Light Snowfall measures 34.5 × 46.8 cm.