Among the Rocks
- Date:
- 1929
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
"Among the Rocks" of 1929 is a rare Onchi landscape — not the urban Tokyo scenes of his contemporary series but a study of geological forms: boulders or rocky terrain rendered with the formal interest in mass, surface, and spatial relationship that characterizes his abstract work applied to a natural subject. The rocks' weathered surfaces and accumulated weight invited the kind of close formal study that Onchi typically reserved for human faces, treating the geological as a form of portraiture — each rock's specific character as individual as any face.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Among the Rocks was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎) in 1929.
Among the Rocks depicts landscapes and mountains.
