id:			441312
accession number:	2021.152.13
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.152.13
updated:		2023-08-24 01:46:32.990000

Haiga Portfolio: Slow days piling up, how distant they seem, these past times, 1966–67. Stanton Macdonald-Wright (American, 1890–1973), printed by Clifton Karhu (American, 1927–2007). Color woodcut; image: 40.5 x 50.7 cm (15 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.); sheet: 45.4 x 54.4 cm (17 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Stanton and Jean Macdonald-Wright 2021.152.13

title:				Slow days piling up, how distant they seem, these past times
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series:				Haiga Portfolio
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creation date:			1966–67
creation date earliest:		1966
creation date latest:		1967
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creditline:			Gift of the Estate of Stanton and Jean Macdonald-Wright
copyright:			

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culture:	America
technique:	color woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Stanton Macdonald-Wright (American, 1890–1973)  - artist

* Clifton Karhu (American, 1927–2007)  - printer
Works in "Sosaku hangu" style, making woodblock prints of typical Japanese scenes, often old Japanese houses or details taken from old houses, especially those of Kyoto.
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measurements: Image: 40.5 x 50.7 cm (15 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.); Sheet: 45.4 x 54.4 cm (17 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.)
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edition of the work: 	edition of 50

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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Red ink stamp, recto, lower left
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	remark:		

	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "11. Slow days piling up, how distant they seem, these past times. Buson 7/50 1966-67"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Stanton Macdonald-Wright (the artist) [189-1973]
	date: 1967–73
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	(Macdonald-Wright Estate)
	date: 1973-2021
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: September 6, 2021
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fun fact:
The artist wrote of the works in this portfolio: “I have attempted to pictorialize these haiku psychologically and thus complete the verses by making the illustrations as modern as the verses will always remain.”

digital description:
Modernist painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright developed the <em>Haiga portfolio</em> out of his admiration for <em>haiga</em>, the traditional art of haiku illustration. Produced in Japan using traditional Japanese printmaking technique (ukiyo-e), the artist challenged the typically minimalist, black and white approach to haiku illustration. While many of the works in the portfolio employ the lively colors and patterns of Synchromism—an art movement MacDonald-Wright founded in 1910 seeking to apply color theory to music and rhythm—others are more contemplative, while still retaining a connection to abstract modernist optics.

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