After the Snow Falls
by Ito Shinsui
- Date:
- 1921
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 26.6 × 38.8 cm
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
A waterfall cascades through a snow-laden landscape in this 1921 landscape, the contrast between the water's fluid motion and the stillness of accumulating snow creating the central tension of the composition. The bokashi gradations build the cold blue-white atmosphere of a winter scene, while the falling water—too cold to fully freeze, too active to be stilled—occupies the center of the image. Shinsui's confident handling of this complex natural subject at age twenty-three demonstrates his rapid technical maturation.
More Prints by Ito Shinsui
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
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Frequently Asked Questions
After the Snow Falls was created by Ito Shinsui (伊東深水) in 1921.
After the Snow Falls uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print.
After the Snow Falls was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1921).
After the Snow Falls depicts snow scenes, waterfalls, and rivers & lakes.
After the Snow Falls measures 26.6 × 38.8 cm (Oban format).