id: 152581 accession number: 1985.394 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.394 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:27.793000 (An Apprentice Geisha, Kyoto) Maiko, Kyoto, 1960. Saitō Kiyoshi (1907–1997). Color woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.394 title: (An Apprentice Geisha, Kyoto) Maiko, Kyoto title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1960 creation date earliest: 1960 creation date latest: 1960 current location: creditline: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith copyright: --- culture: Japan, 20th century technique: color woodcut department: Prints collection: PR - Woodcut type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Saitō Kiyoshi (1907–1997) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: A Tradition Transformed: Japanese Prints, 1947-1987 opening date: 1988-02-09T05:00:00 A Tradition Transformed: Japanese Prints, 1947-1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 24, 1988). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005. "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections". --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Twentieth-century Japanese printmakers often exploit the grain of the woodblock to create striated patterns within the work. Saito, like his mentors Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin before him, incorporated into the image the texture inherent in the woodblock. Saito reduced form to simple, flat shapes, achieving abstracted, strong compositions printed in only a few muted earth tones. Saito was the first modern Japanese printmaker to win an award abroad at the First Biennial Exhibition of the Modern Art Museum in Saõ Paulo, Brazil, in 1951. This international recognition helped to establish the legitimacy of the sosaku-hanga printmaking movement. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES