Ox Cart in Grand Canyon
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$1,000–$15,000. Reproductions and common prints: $1,000–$3,000. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
An ox cart moves through the Grand Canyon in this unusual composition that documents Yumeji's 1931 trip to the United States, his only significant travel outside of Japan. The Grand Canyon — sublime, ancient, geologically overwhelming — presented Yumeji with a landscape of entirely different scale and character than anything in the Japanese aesthetic tradition, and his response to it is characteristically his own: the presence of the ox cart, a vehicle of traditional rural labor, imports a human scale and a Japanese reference point into the overwhelmingly American landscape.
Hebizukai
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
1935
Color woodblock print; oban
1964
Acrylic paint and oil pastel with oiled charcoal and ink over an ink and graphite underdrawing on paper
1964
Color lithograph with relief block and hand coloring; edition 35/36
Ox Cart in Grand Canyon was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Ox Cart in Grand Canyon depicts animals.
