Crow in Snow

Object Details

• Artist

  Kawanabe Kyosai 河鍋暁斎 (1831-1889)

• Label

  Kyosai is reputed to have produced as many as two hundred drawings in one day. His most celebrated painting was an ink-on-paper rendering of a crow on a branch, an award-winning creation exhibited in 1881 at the Second National Industrial Exhibition in Tokyo. Its success obliged him to satisfy a great demand for similar images. Here, he achieves the feel of brushwork with an ironic reversal, using the white, uninked paper to compose the central elements. The bird's eye and the slightest gradation in and around the beak further nuance this print.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Worlds of Dreams: Modern Japanese Engravings from the Collection of Robert O. Muller (October 26, 2006 to January 7, 2007)

  Dream Worlds: Modern Japanese Prints and Paintings from the Robert O. Muller Collection (November 06, 2004 to January 7, 2007)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Robert O. Muller Collection

• Type

  Print

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1900s, 1880s

• Name

  Kawanabe, Kyosai

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Robert O. Muller collection, Crow, Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints