Dawn
- Date:
- ca. 1920
- Medium:
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
Description
A dawn scene — yoake — rendered in the muted, luminous tones that mark the transition from night to day. Urushibara's "Dawn," produced around 1920, demonstrates his mastery of atmospheric light, a quality that his collaboration with Brangwyn had developed through the British artist's characteristic interest in mood and tone. Whether depicting a European harbor, an English landscape, or a Japanese setting, Urushibara's treatment of dawn light shows his internalization of both Western pictorialism and Japanese tonal refinement.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Dawn was created by Yoshijiro Urushibara (漆原木虫) in ca. 1920.
Dawn depicts landscapes and night scenes.