Landscape in greens
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- mfa
Typical Price
$500–$4,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Maekawa's early sosaku-hanga works are historically significant. Bold, expressive prints are most valued.
Description
A landscape in greens — summer or spring, the vegetation at its fullest — is Senpan's subject in this undated print, the dominant color of the composition providing both its title and its mood. Green landscapes in Senpan's work are among his most purely pleasurable, the season's abundance of leaf and growth creating a compositional richness that contrasts with the more austere winter subjects and the more dramatic autumn ones. The specific landscape — a riverbank, a mountain slope, a valley — is less important than the quality of green itself, the color of living growth.
More Prints by Maekawa Senpan
More Landscapes Prints
Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
Woodblock print
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Landscape in greens was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆).
Landscape in greens depicts landscapes.