Umetaro Azechi

Mountain Landscape (Untitled Compositon)

Umetaro Azechi's original woodcut, Mountain Landscape (Untitled Composition) is printed upon fine hand made mulberry paper and with full margins as published in Tokyo around 1960. It is signed by Azechi in pencil along the lower margin. The most dominating motif in Umetaro Azechi's art were the mountains and his artistic portrayals of mountaineering. His bold and simplistic use of both color and line and his ability to express emotional imagery by these methods influenced many contemporary Japanese woodcut artists.

Mountain Landscape (Untitled Composition)

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Title:	Mountain Landscape (Untitled Composition)
Artist:	Azechi, Umetaro (Uwajima, Shikoku Island, 1902 - Tokyo, 1999)
Date:	c. 1960
Medium:	Original Woodcut
Note:	Umetaro Azechi: One of Japan's greatest woodcut artists of the last half of the twentieth century, Umetaro Azechi was born into a family of poor farmers. With ambitions of becoming an artist he moved to Tokyo in 1921 and got a job delivering newspapers. Shortly thereafter he gained acceptance to the Japan Creative Print Association and was both taught printmaking techniques and encouraged by Unichi Hiratsuka.
	Umetaro Azechi first exhibited his woodcuts in Tokyo in 1930. It wasn't, however, until after the Second World War ended that he began to emerge as a major modern artist. Scenes of his native Shikoku Island landscape and of Ainu folk customs were featured but by far the most dominating motif were the mountains and his artistic portrayals of mountaineering. (Umetaro Azechi, in fact, became an authority on mountaineering and wrote a number of books on this subject.) His bold and simplistic use of both color and line and his ability to express emotional imagery by these methods influenced many contemporary Japanese woodcut artists.
	During his distinguished career Umetaro Azechi's woodcuts were included in major international exhibitions in England, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Brazil and the United States. Today his woodcuts are included in the permanent collections of the Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, the Machida City Museum of Graphic Art, Tokyo, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the British Museum, London.
Edition:	No edition is given for Mountain Landscape. Within his oeuvre, Umetaro Azechi numbered only some of his prints. The majority of his woodcuts, however, were printed in editions of 150 or less.
Size:	12 3/8 X 9 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon fine hand made mulberry (rice) paper and with full margins as published in Tokyo around 1960. Signed by Azechi in pencil along the lower margin. A beautifully printed and in excellent condition throughout. Mountain Landscape represents a prime, original example of the famous woodcut art of Umetaro Azechi.
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