Mount Rainier
- Date:
- 1925
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and colors on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 36 × 51 cm
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
Mount Rainier (4,392 m) — the volcanic giant dominating the Seattle skyline — was among the subjects Yoshida captured during his extended 1923–25 North American tour, a journey that produced some of the first Western landscape subjects rendered in the shin-hanga woodblock idiom. The dormant stratovolcano's ice-capped mass rises above forested foothills and river valleys, rendered with the objective grandeur of a painter trained in Western tradition but printing through Japanese craft. This 1925 work stands as a landmark of cross-cultural landscape art.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Mount Rainier was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1925.
Mount Rainier was published by Yoshida Studio (1925).
Mount Rainier depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and mountains.
Mount Rainier measures 36 × 51 cm (Oban format).