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Winter Field

A work made of dye imbibition print.

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  • A work made of dye imbibition print.

Date:

1959

Artist:

Jun Fujita
Japanese, 1888–1963

About this artwork

Bending to the winter winds, golden switchgrass undulates against a field of snow. Jun Fujita was a keen landscape photographer and poet who captured the seasonal shifts of the Midwest. The artist conveyed the sensorial wonders of the natural world, whether through his color photographs of the Indiana Dunes, northern Minnesota, and the suburbs of Chicago, or in the tanka and haiku that he regularly published in the Chicago-based Poetry magazine. During the 1930s, Fujita lived in the 57th Street Artist Colony in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, which was home to a rich community of Black, Asian, and white artists and writers.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Jun Fujita

Title

Winter Field

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.

1959

Medium

Dye imbibition print

Dimensions

Image/paper: 37.2 × 29.2 cm (14 11/16 × 11 1/2 in.); Mount: 50.9 × 40.8 cm (20 1/16 × 16 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. Jun Fujita

Reference Number

1968.533

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