Circus horses – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Circus horses, a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Circus horses
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A horse-filled circus ring gives this 1959 color woodcut its subject, and ground mica worked into the surface adds a glimmer that catches the light. The print belongs to the sōsaku-hanga, or "creative print," movement, in which artists carved and printed their own blocks instead of splitting the work among designers, carvers, and printers as traditional ukiyo-e workshops did. That shift gave the image a more personal hand. The Library of Congress included it in a 2001 exhibition on ukiyo-e, which placed this later work beside the older tradition it grew from.
| Created / published | 1959 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color, ground mica ; 19 x 13 inches (approximate size). |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. 650? Circles? Squares? Where did other title come from? |
| Notes | Title from print. Other information based on entry for item in exhibition catalog. Sōsaku-hanga print. The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substance / essays by Sandy Kita ... [et al.]. New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with the Library of Congress, 2001, no. 86, p. 150. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,670 × 4,560 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221967 |
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