Florence
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Typical Price
$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.
Description
Florence gave Ono what all his European subjects gave him: the opportunity to apply a Japanese modernist eye to old-world architecture. The city's dense historic fabric — terracotta rooflines, the Duomo's mass, the tight streets of the Oltrarno — offered the same kind of urban layering he found in Tokyo's older neighborhoods. Ono's Florence emerges not as a tourist postcard but as a formal problem solved through bold shape-making and restrained color.
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More Urban Scenes Prints
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View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
Color lithograph
Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
Color lithograph
Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Florence was created by Tadashige Ono (小野忠重).
Florence depicts urban scenes and architecture.