Evening in Pittsburg
- Date:
- description
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
The edition type is the primary value driver for Yoshida prints. The jizuri seal — indicating the artist personally supervised every aspect of printing — typically commands 2–3× the price of posthumous reprints. Standard jizuri prints of Japanese landscapes cluster around $2,149 at dealer level (1stDibs benchmark). PBS Antiques Roadshow valued a pair of lifetime prints at $2,500 total (~$1,250 each) for non-jizuri examples.
Pittsburgh at dusk presented Yoshida with a purely American industrial subject during his extended North American tour — the steel city's famous skyline of mills, bridges, and rivers shrouded in the glow of furnaces and factory smoke. That Yoshida would capture this urban-industrial landscape in woodblock is testament to his commitment to recording the world as he found it, not only its scenic peaks and traditional cultures. The print bridges East and West in the most literal sense: Japanese craft applied to the symbol of American industrial modernity.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![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)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Evening in Pittsburg was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in description.
Evening in Pittsburg was published by Yoshida Studio (description).
Evening in Pittsburg depicts night scenes.
