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Snowy Gorge at Fuji River

Snowy Gorge at Fuji River

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Utagawa Hiroshige

Snowy Gorge at Fuji River is a vertical diptych designed to look like a painted hanging scroll. It presents a monumental landscape with deep recessions in space and a bird’s-eye perspective, characteristics most often associated with Chinese landscape painting. Hiroshige accentuates the grand scale of the snowy gorge by including diminutive figures in boats, a solitary figure walking across the snow-covered bridge, and tiny mountain huts. The gray sky and bright blue water were printed with dramatic color gradation. Hiroshige’s student Utagawa Hiroshige II paid homage to this design in a single-sheet version, Snow at Kiso Gorge in Shinano Province.
Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Title
Snowy Gorge at Fuji River
Date
1842
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
735 x 245 mm Overall
Credit
Gift of Linda and John Comstock
Accession No.
2003.48.10
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 115, no. 81
  • Schlombs, Adele. "Hiroshige: 1797-1858." Koln, Germany: Taschen, 2007. p. 92
  • Chazen Museum of Art. "Bulletin 2003-2007." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2010. p. 57

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