Hiroshige Andō

Masterworks

Hiroshige

Hokusai Katsushika

Muneshige Narazaki

Studies in Nature: Hokusai-Hiroshige

Timothy Clark

Julian Opie

An exhibition of later woodblock prints by Hiroshige, curated by British artist Julian Opie. There is a correspondence between Opie's work and Hiroshige's - both focus on landscape and figures and flattened compositions. Includes some of Hiroshige's sketchbook drawings.

The Moon Reflected : Later Woodblock Prints from the British Museum

Utagawa Hiroshige

Introduction; Poet Peregrine; famous views; resume of Hiroshige's life; maps; plates - Japanese wood-block printing - Pictures of the floating world - ukiyo-e artists.

Hiroshige Famous Views

"These pencil, ink, and watercolor drawings by the great Japanese master Hiroshige Ando (1797-1858) were made when he was at the height of his talent and popularity. Rarely circulated or seen, the drawings, which appear in two sketchbooks, range from everyday scenes of a worker in a rice field stopping to smoke or fishing boats at work, to episodes of classic Japanese folklore and fantasy. The colors are fresh, the renderings fluid, and the use of space astonishing. With just a few brushstrokes, Hiroshige creates scenes of enduring elegance. As Daniel Boorstin states in his foreword, "No study of art history or chronology is needed to enjoy the shock and revelation of the blank page transformed." Even those unacquainted with Japanese art will be enchanted by their delicate beauty." "Hiroshige executed these drawings around 1840 while traveling in Japan; they are now in the Crosby Stuart Noyes Collection in the Library of Congress. This one-volume edition has been printed in Japan to ensure the utmost care in reproducing the subtle nuances of Hiroshige's masterpieces, which are reproduced to size and in their original sequence."--Jacket.

The Sketchbooks of Hiroshige

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Matthi Forrer

Jūzō Suzuki

Suzuki Juzo

Royal Academy of Arts London

Henry DeWitt Smith

Exhibition Hiroshige (1997, London)

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) holds an assured place in the history of world art as one of the greatest and best-loved masters of the wood-block print. For this book, published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London to mark the bicentenary of the artist's birth, every effort has been made to reproduce the finest early impressions. Each plate is provided with a commentary by Matthi Forrer who, in an introductory essay, examines Hiroshige's life and work, assessing his place in Japanese art and making some important revisions to the generally accepted chronology of his oeuvre. Suzuki Juzo, in his essay, makes a plea for seeing Hiroshige as a whole, drawing attention to aspects of the artist's work and personality that are often overlooked, while Henry D. Smith II places Hiroshige and his art in their social and political context.

Prints and Drawings

Richard H. Fay

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