Nasturtium

1954

Yoshida Fujio
Japanese, 1887-1987

This print focusing on abstracted floral imagery is one of Yoshida Fujio’s best-known works. She only began printmaking in her sixties, after the death of her husband, when she felt that she had more freedom to experiment with abstraction and also had the encouragement of her son, Hodaka.

Fujio may have been the first female Japanese artist to travel to America: she visited the country in 1903–4 with her adopted brother, Hiroshi, whom she later married. She was renowned in Japan for the oil paintings and watercolors she had shown in annual government-sponsored exhibitions.

Status: On View, Gallery 107
Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Yoshida Fujio
Title: Nasturtium
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1954
Medium: Color woodblock print
Dimensions: 37.6 × 24.4 cm (14 13/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Chizuko, Takasuke, and Ayomi Yoshida
Reference Number: 2013.27

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