Snow and Sunset
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Typical Price
- Fine Aizu snow scene or winter landscape: $800–$3,000
- Good condition Tohoku landscape: $300–$1,000
- Standard edition: $200–$600
Description
Snow and Sunset collapses two of Saito's most productive subjects into a single composition—the white ground of a snow-covered landscape meeting the warm color field of a winter sunset, the two halves of the image in dialogue across a horizon line. In the Aizu region, winter sunsets are often spectacular events, the low sun turning the snow surface from white to gold to rose before dark arrives quickly. His rendering would have treated this as a color relationship problem: warm above, cold below, the horizon a geometric event.
More Prints by Saito Kiyoshi
More Snow Scenes Prints
Fair Weather After Snow at Yamato Bridge, Kyoto (Yamato bashi no yukibare), Taishô period, dated 1924
Woodblock print
The Compound of the Tenman Shrine at Kameido in the Snow (Kameido Tenmangu keidai no yuki), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)"
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
Woodblock print
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Snow and Sunset was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Snow and Sunset depicts snow scenes.