Ocean View of Ohara
- Date:
- 1927
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: His enormous output (lived to 102) means most works are accessible. Early black-and-white prints are most valued.
The Ohara coastline south of Chiba on the Pacific coast is rendered here in Hiratsuka's 1927 color woodblock — one of his early coastal landscape subjects. The color treatment suggests the warmth of the Pacific shore, the ocean's expanse framed by the coastal landscape's simple forms. The ocean view represents a departure from the mountain lake and river subjects that dominate his landscape work of this period.
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.
Ocean View of Ohara was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1927.
Ocean View of Ohara depicts landscapes and seascapes.
