Mother and Child
- Date:
- c. 1915–1955
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Cleveland Museum of Art
"Mother and Child," produced over a span of Onchi's career (c. 1915-1955), represents one of his most sustained and returning subjects — the mother-child relationship as an archetype of human love and connection. His multiple treatments of this subject across decades of stylistic development show how the same emotional core could be approached through very different formal vocabularies: from the more decorative, symbolist treatment of his early career to the fully abstract or semi-abstract renderings of his late period. Each version addresses the subject anew through the formal means available at that moment.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mother and Child was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎) in c. 1915–1955.
Mother and Child depicts children and daily life.
