Old Bookstore in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
- Date:
- 1963
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
An old bookstore in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. — its books visible through the window, the shopfront's wooden frame rendered with Hiratsuka's characteristic attention to architectural detail — represents the quotidian urban subject at its most intimate. The 1963 woodblock belongs to his Georgetown street-level documentation, finding in the neighborhood's surviving 19th-century commercial buildings the same formal interest he brought to temple gateways.
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Old Bookstore in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1963.
Old Bookstore in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. depicts urban scenes, architecture, and daily life.