A Street in Messina, Sicily, after the Earthquake of December 28, 1908

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A Street in Messina, Sicily, after the Earthquake of December 28, 1908

c. 1917-1928

Yoshijirō Urushibara (Japanese, 1889–1953) After a watercolor of 1910 by Frank Brangwyn (British, 1867–1943)

This multiblock color woodcut by Yoshijiro Urushibara, a Japanese printmaker working in London, remarkably mimics the transparency and fluidity of British artist Frank Brangwyn’s 1910 watercolor. Even the linear marks that appear closer to crayon are cut out of blocks of wood. These two artists worked together across media to expand on the atmospheric effects possible in woodcut to create a print that could be multiplied in substitution for the watercolor.

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Object Details

Titles:

A Street in Messina, Sicily, after the Earthquake of December 28, 1908

Date:

c. 1917-1928

Artists:

Yoshijirō Urushibara (Japanese, 1889–1953) After a watercolor of 1910 by Frank Brangwyn (British, 1867–1943)

Medium:

Color woodcut

Dimensions:

Sheet: 19 1/2 × 14 3/4 inches (49.5 × 37.5 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The William S. Pilling Collection, 1933

Accession Number:

1933-72-2271

Geography:

Made in London, England, Europe

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