Description: Naoko Matsubara, 'Winter Serenity', woodblock, 1971, edition 100. An impression apart from the unsigned edition of 200 for the portfolio 'Solitude'. Signed and numbered '58/100' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream laid Japan paper; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Image size 13 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches; sheet size 15 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. ABOUT THE ARTISTNaoko Matsubara was born in 1937 on the island of Shikoku, Japan and grew up in Kyoto. Her father was one of the most senior Shinto priests in Japan, and her mother came from a very old Shinto family. After graduating from the Kyoto Academy of Fine Arts (now Kyoto Fine Arts University), she went to the United States as a Fulbright scholar, spending a year at the Carnegie Institute of Art (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, where she received her MFA. Subsequently she was invited to study at the Royal College of Art in London; and travelled extensively in Europe and Asia before returning to Japan in 1963. In 1965 she returned to the United States as personal assistant to Fritz Eichenberg, a wood-engraving artist and historian of print-making. Matsubara taught at the Pratt Graphic Center in New York and at the University of Rhode Island, before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a free-lance artist. In 1972, following her marriage to David Waterhouse, a professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, she moved to Canada. She remains intensely active as an artist of single-sheet woodcuts, portfolios and illustrated books, and a painter and a mural artist, working out of her studio in Oakville, Ontario. She has also traveled widely, written prolifically and lectured in both English and Japanese. In 1981 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Matsubara taught at Pratt Institute, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of California. Her work is represented in numerous museum collections: Albertina Museum, Vienna; Fogg Museum, Harvard University; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Cincinnati Art Museum; Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Detroit Art Institute; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Boston Public Library; New York Public Library; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts. In 2009, a one-person retrospective of her work was held at Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh.
Price: 327 USD
Location: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Width (Inches): 10 1/8
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Subject: Hands, pea harvesting
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Material: Woodblock
Height (Inches): 13 1/4
Print Surface: Paper
Date of Creation: 1971
Artist: Naoko Matsubara
Year of Production: 1971
Original/Licensed Reprint: Limited Edition Print
Style: Showa Era
Type: Woodcut
