No. 8 Inu (No. 8 Dog), Shôwa period, dated 1976
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
Description
No. 8 Inu (No. 8 Dog) from 1976 belongs to Hagiwara's animal series, in which individual animals were rendered with the same combination of observed naturalism and abstract interpretation that characterized his human figure work. The dog — simultaneously a domestic companion, a working animal, and a subject with deep roots in Japanese art from medieval scrolls to modern painting — appears here as one of a numbered series of canine subjects. Hagiwara's carved surfaces captured the texture of fur and the posture of animal attention with characteristic directness.
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No. 8 Inu (No. 8 Dog), Shôwa period, dated 1976 was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
No. 8 Inu (No. 8 Dog), Shôwa period, dated 1976 depicts animals.