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Sep 28, 2007

Quiet Day in Ohara

Quiet Day in Ohara

1982

Tanaka Ryōhei 田中 良平

(Japanese, 1933–2019)

Japan, 20th century

Etching

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ward Collection Fund 1982.236

Location

not on view

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Description

Tanaka's prints are a remarkable combination of meticulous, almost photographic details of the textures and surfaces of objects, and cropped forms, silhouetted against a blank white ground or flattened in compressed space. Tanaka's style might be seen as a fusion of the Western technique of etching with the flat forms and decorative compositions of traditional ukiyo-e woodcuts. Tanaka also reveals his cultural heritage in his choice of subject-the old-fashioned and now rapidly disappearing thatched Japanese farmhouse.

See also
Collection: 
PR - Etching
Department: 
Prints
Type of artwork: 
Print
Medium: 
Etching
Credit line: 
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ward Collection Fund

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