Sketch for the print "View of Mount Bandai"
- Date:
- c. 1941
- Medium:
- Watercolor and pencil sketch (woodblock print: 1962.247)
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
A preparatory sketch for the woodblock print "View of Mount Bandai" — made around 1941 in watercolor and pencil — captures the mountain and its surrounding landscape in the more immediate, exploratory medium that preceded the more labor-intensive woodblock version. The sketch's medium allows for a freedom of observation and a directness of mark-making that the woodblock could not replicate, and in some respects the sketch communicates the mountain's character more immediately than the finished print. This work is both a document of Senpan's process and a significant work in its own right.
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Sketch for the print "View of Mount Bandai" was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆) in c. 1941.
Sketch for the print "View of Mount Bandai" depicts landscapes.