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Ansei Uchima Modern Art Signed Edition Silkscreen 1970s
Description: Silkscreen on paper, unframed (matted). Title, edition number, artist signature with monogram and date in pencil along lower margin: "In Blue 120/200 A. Uchima 1973". Artist biographical information and print details has been typed on paper and placed within the mat, an excerpt from this writing is below:"When asked to make a limited edition for the Sarah Lawrence Associates, Mr Uchima was teaching at the College's summer program at Lacoste, in Southern France. The enclosed silkscreen which resulted, In Blue, is a landscape depicting the two areas in which he has recently worked - the towering buildings of New York and the country hills of Provence. According to the artist, it does not express either one literally but conveys the feeling of both. Selecting a subject was easy; interpreting it was the real challenge. It required Mr. Uchima to perform an experiment which he believes may have led to a first in printing, silkscreening with watercolor by adding rice paste to provide sufficient body.". Dimensions: Paper (sight): 3 3/4 x 4 1/2in. Mat: 9 1/2 x 11in. Weight: Condition: Paper is attached to backing board with archival tape at top two corners verso. Slight soiling and signs of light wear to paper surface throughout surrounding margins, but otherwise in very good condition overall. Artist's Biography:
Ansei Uchima (American: 1921 - 2000). The work of Ansei Uchima reflects a complex fusion of Western and Eastern artistic traditions. Born in California, Uchima returned to Japan at age nineteen, and after World War II studied painting and traditional Japanese printmaking. Through his job as translator for Oliver Statler, an American print collector who was interviewing artists for a book on contemporary Japanese prints, he was introduced to the sosaku-hanga (creative print) movement, which incorporated a Western modernist aesthetic. Like other artists in the sosaku-hanga school, Uchima carved, inked, and printed his own wood blocks, enjoying the accidents and unexpected opportunities that arose spontaneously from interaction with the wood block. His first prints, beginning in 1957, drew from nature and the world around him. After he returned to the United States in 1959, his floating, calligraphic compositions, characteristic of sosaku-hanga, suggested the growing influence of Abstract Expressionism. Uchima used Japanese paper made especially for him by a Japanese master papermaker and National Treasure, Ichibei Iwano. Uchima was an esteemed woodblock print artist, painter, and fine arts professor, as well as Emeritus faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College, where he taught from 1962 to 1982. Uchima also taught at Columbia University to 1982. He received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1962 and 1970, and his work is included in permanent collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, National Gallery of Art, among many others. [Source: ]
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