Hideo Hagiwara

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Hideo Hagiwara Memory No. 17
Memory No. 17 , 1994
Woodblock Print
39 x 27 in
$4,500
Hideo Hagiwara Germination
Germination , 1962
Woodblock Print
29.25 x 19.5 in
SOLD
Hideo Hagiwara A Cliff Abstract Japanese Woodblock Print_ Hideo Hagiwara
A Cliff No.3
Woodblock Print
21.5 x 27.5 in
$900
Hideo Hagiwara Ancient Record No. 1
Ancient Record No. 1 , 1996
Woodblock Print
38.5 x 27.25 in
$4,000
Hideo Hagiwara Ancient Record No. 3
Ancient Record No. 3 , 1997
Woodblock Print
39.5 x 27.25 in
$4,000
Hideo Hagiwara Ancient Record No.4
Ancient Record No.4
Woodblock Print
39.25 x 27.75 in
$4,000
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Hideo Hagiwara

Hideo Hagiwara

Hideo Hagiwara Biography

Hideo Hagiwara ,1913-2007

Hideo Hagiwara was born in 1913; until his death in 2007 he was the foremost living
woodblock print Artist in Japan. Over his long career he has exhibited all over the World
and won numermous prizes. He invented different, new techniques in producing woodblock prints in varied sizes and styles over his long carreer. His Prints are held by the major museums in Japan, USA and Europe.
Born in 1913 in kOFU vKofu City, Hagiwara graduated from the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts in 1938.He was introduced to American audiences by Time Magazine in 1959 and served as the Chief Director of the Japan Print Association from 1979-1900. He received a Purple Ribbon Medal from the Japanese Government in 1983 and a Gold Medal from the Nobel Prize Committee in 1989.
His Mount Fuji Series of about 50 Prints continues a long tradition, starting in the 17th century of representations of the revered mountain of Japan. Hagiwara had a house near Mount Fuji and was thus able to observe the mountain at all times of day and night and in all seasons.

 

 

Hideo Hagiwara Resumé

Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Honolulu Museum of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Philidelphia Museum of Art
Cincinnati Art Museum
Vienna National Museum of Art
Victoria and Albert Museum
Oxford University MuseumMuseum of Art and History,Geneva
New South Wales Art Gallery,Sidney
Dresden Museum of Art
 

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