Hodaka Yoshida

1926-1995

One More Scene: Stonehouses, Tomo
(Mouhitotsu no fukei: kura, tomo)

zinc etching and woodblock on paper; signed in pencil on the bottom right margin, Hodaka Yoshida, titled in Japanese on the bottom left margin, Mouhitotsu no fukei - kura, tomo, and numbered 25/100, 1988

16 7/8 by 24 3/8 in., 43 by 61.8 cm

Starting in 1973, Hodaka began to use his adapt his photographs for prints, combining photoetching with color woodblock printing. Eugene Skibbe notes that Hodaka had been well known as a photographer before he became recognized as a print artist. In 1958 one of his photographs was used on the cover of Camera Mainichi, and in 1960 one of his photographs was included in the Modern Photographs Exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art.

The intensely saturated color and emphasis on the contrasting textures of the old storehouses is a prelude to Hodaka's monumental Wall prints of the early 1990s.

Provenance: Yoshida Family Collection

References:
Eugene M. Skibbe, Yoshida Hodaka: Magic, Artifact, and Art, in A Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002, pp. 110-120 (see note 22); p. 146, cat. 104
Hodaka Yoshida: Walls of Wonder, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, 2019, Tatsuo Matsuyama, pp. 13-16; Ayomi Yoshida, pp. 116-118; Satoko Tomita, pp. 126-129
The Art Institute of Chicago (www.artic.edu), reference no. 2013.30
Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture (onlinecollection.asianart.org), object no. 2016.5

(inv. no. C-3570)

price: Sold