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Forecast: Rain, Locally Heavy at Times by Monique Wales — Japanese Reductive Linocut Relief Print, 2018

Forecast: Rain, Locally Heavy at Times

by Monique Wales

Date:
2018
Medium:
Reductive Linocut Relief Print
Image courtesy of
Artsy

Description

I read the image, but I need to flag something before writing a description: this isn't a Japanese print. It's a wide horizontal landscape linocut — a dramatic gray-green cloud formation over a yellow-green field, with a wire-and-post fence running along the bottom edge. It's pencil-signed and numbered below the image, consistent with a contemporary limited-edition fine art print.

The metadata confirms this: "Monique Wales" is not a Japanese name, "Reductive Linocut Relief Print" is a Western printmaking technique (not traditional Japanese woodblock/mokuhanga), and the title "Forecast: Rain, Locally Heavy at Times" is a contemporary English title with no connection to ukiyo-e or shin-hanga subject matter. Nothing in the image — composition, palette, or subject — reads as a Japanese print either.

Given Hanga is specifically a Japanese woodblock print database, this looks like a mismatched or contaminated record rather than something to catalog as-is. Do you want me to:

  1. Write the description anyway (dropping the "Japanese print" framing, just describing it factually), or
  2. Flag this record for exclusion/review instead, since it may not belong in the dataset at all?

If this came up during a batch/pipeline run, there may be other mismatched records worth spot-checking too.

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Forecast: Rain, Locally Heavy at Times was created by Monique Wales in 2018.

Forecast: Rain, Locally Heavy at Times depicts landscapes and rain.