Jun Fujita
Japanese, 1888–1963
Winter Field
INV-3012
Jun Fujita
Japanese, 1888–19631959
Winter Field
Jun Fujita Japanese, 1888–1963 →photographic processphotography
Date
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Mr. Jun Fujita
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.
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