"Zoo in Early Fall" takes the zoo as an urban landscape subject in the specific atmospheric conditions of early autumn — when the heat of summer has begun to ease and the zoo's grounds take on the first notes of seasonal change in their plantings and in the quality of the afternoon light. Onchi's zoo subjects, which include the 1945 Ueno Zoo from the "Recollections" series, treat the zoo as a place where urban Japan and the natural world staged their most concentrated encounter, with all the complexity that relationship implied.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Zoo in Early Fall was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Zoo in Early Fall depicts urban scenes, animals, and autumn foliage.
