Ito Shinsui
Japanese, 1898-1972
Clock and Beauty, no. IV
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Ito Shinsui
Japanese, 1898-19721964
Clock and Beauty, no. IV
Ito Shinsui Japanese, 1898-1972 →Japanese (culture or style)woodblock printprint
Date
1964
Medium
Color woodblock print with white pigment around earring applied through a stencil
Dimensions
37 × 28.5 cm (14 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Frederick W. and Nathalie C. Gookin Endowment
This print is part of a series of four that Itô Shinsui designed for Hotta Watchmakers, each showing a woman and a timepiece from a different era. The earliest is set in the Edo period (1615–1868) while the last print in the series (displayed here) depicts a woman from the 1950s with a trendy hairstyle wearing an equally fashionable full skirt and beret.
Also notable
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Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
