id:			135705
accession number:	1959.240
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.240
updated:		2022-06-02 09:00:25.683000

Mother and Child, c. 1915-1955. Koshiro Onchi (Japanese, 1891-1955). Woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1959.240

title:				Mother and Child
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creation date:			c. 1915-1955
creation date earliest:		1915
creation date latest:		1955
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creditline:			Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
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culture:	Japan, 20th century
technique:	woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Koshiro Onchi (Japanese, 1891-1955)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Transformations in Japanese Printmaking
	opening date:   1984-09-25T04:00:00
	<i>Transformations in Japanese Printmaking</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 16, 1984).

	title:		East Meets West:  Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints
	opening date:   2000-03-19T00:00:00
	<i>East Meets West:  Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 19-May 28, 2000).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 19 - May 28, 2000.  "East Meets West:  Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints."

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PROVENANCE

	William C. Hartnett
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Kōshirō Onchi was a key figure in the sōsaku-hanga movement. He not only provided essential aesthetic and spiritual leadership, but his aristocratic background made him a forceful advocate of printmaking within the hostile bureaucracy of Japan's hierarchical art world. Onchi admired the nonobjective images of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky and the Expressionist style of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, whose works shared a kinship with his own interests in the expressive power of nonrepresentational and abstracted figural compositions as well as color. Onchi was particularly attracted to the medium of woodcut in which he felt he was forced to simplify his forms and thus intensify the expression of his emotion while cutting, gouging, and scraping the image into the block.
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