Summer Vacation
- Date:
- 1967
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 80.8 × 52.9 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Takahashi's prints are modestly priced. Quality examples with strong design are most valued.
A 1967 woodblock print in ink and color on paper evoking the particular freedom and languor of summer holidays. The title implies not a specific scene but a state of being: the unhurried days of warmth when routines dissolve and time expands. Takahashi likely conveys this through expansive compositional space, bright or heat-saturated color, and forms that suggest leisure activities such as swimming, resting in shade, or traveling to coastal or mountain retreats. The summer vacation theme carries cultural resonance in Japan, where the Obon holiday season in August combines ancestral remembrance with family travel and seaside recreation. Created in 1967, the print belongs to a decade when paid vacation time was expanding across Japanese society.
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Summer Vacation was created by Takahashi Rikio (高橋力雄) in 1967.
Summer Vacation depicts animals and summer.
Summer Vacation measures 80.8 × 52.9 cm.
