Evening in Pittsburg
- Date:
- description
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Description
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Evening in Pittsburg was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in description.
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Evening in Pittsburg depicts night scenes.