Boston Ivy and Bamboo
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
$500–$5,000. Common Biblical prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Watanabe's warm, folk-art Biblical prints have a devoted collector base. Larger formats and earlier works command more.
Boston ivy and bamboo — a pairing of the Western climbing plant with one of the most fundamental elements of Japanese visual culture — demonstrates Watanabe's occasional engagement with purely decorative botanical subjects outside his Biblical narrative work. The combination is quietly cross-cultural: the Boston ivy's woody, tendriling form alongside bamboo's clean vertical nodes creates a composition that acknowledges both Eastern and Western natural worlds. Executed in katazome stencil technique, the bold forms of both plants translate naturally into the flat color masses of the medium.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Boston Ivy and Bamboo was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄).
Boston Ivy and Bamboo uses Stencil Print, on woodblock print.
Boston Ivy and Bamboo depicts trees.
