View of Mount Bandai
- Date:
- 1941
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$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.
View of Mount Bandai — the 1941 woodblock print for which Senpan made a preparatory watercolor sketch — depicts the volcanic mountain of Fukushima Prefecture with the directness and warmth that characterize his mature landscape work. Bandai's distinctive broken profile — created by the catastrophic 1888 eruption — gives it a visual character unlike the more symmetrical mountains of Fuji and the Japan Alps, and Senpan's interest in it reflects his preference for landscapes that carry geological and historical specificity rather than conventional picturesque appeal.
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
View of Mount Bandai was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆) in 1941.
View of Mount Bandai depicts landscapes.
