Winter Mountain
- Date:
- 1962
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 25.1 × 17.3 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Typical Price
$500–$5,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Azechi's cheerful mountain prints have consistent demand. Larger and more complex compositions are most valued.
Description
The 1962 Winter Mountain shows Azechi's alpine landscape in its most dramatically reduced seasonal state—the mountain stripped of its summer complexity, the essential forms revealed by snow's simplifying cover. By 1962 his style had achieved its most fully realized bold simplification, and the winter mountain subject—which had always been the territory where his formal vocabulary felt most natural—received in this decade some of its most definitive expressions. The mountain under snow was for him the mountain in its truest form.
More Prints by Umetaro Azechi
A House in the City (Machi no ie), from the series "Manchuria (Manshu)"
1944 (printed c. 1950 from recut block?)
Color woodblock print; oban
Red Wall (Akai kabe), from the series "Manchuria (Manshu)"
1944 (printed c. 1950 from recut block?)
Color woodblock print; oban
Cemetery at Sengakuji, from the series Recollections of Tokyo
1945
Color woodblock print
Brilliance
1961
Color woodblock print; edition 10/100
More Landscapes Prints
Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
Woodblock print
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Winter Mountain was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎) in 1962.
Winter Mountain depicts landscapes, winter, and mountains.
Winter Mountain measures 25.1 × 17.3 cm.