Bridge
- Date:
- 1959
- Medium:
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Ono's socially conscious prints and urban scenes are valued for both artistic quality and historical interest.
Printed in 1959, a period when Ono was consolidating his mature style, this bridge composition reflects his sustained fascination with the infrastructure of modern Japanese cities. Bridges offered him both a structural subject — the elegant engineering of span and support — and a compositional armature: the diagonal or arc cutting across the picture plane to create depth and tension. The print belongs to a body of work documenting Tokyo and its surroundings during rapid postwar transformation.
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.
Bridge was created by Tadashige Ono (小野忠重) in 1959.
Bridge depicts landscapes and bridges.
![TItle unknown [bridge and houses in front of yellow sky] by Tadashige Ono](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/132624.jpg)
