Arthur Wesley Dow
Color Scheme from Hiroshige, No 1, from “Ipswich Prints” (2nd set)
1902
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Arthur Wesley Dow
Color Scheme from Hiroshige, No 1, from “Ipswich Prints” (2nd set)
1902
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut (metalcut?), Sheet: 202 x 177 mm. (7 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Image: 113 x 75 mm. (4 7/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Object Number
1992.137
The artist, Arthur Wesley Dow, was introduced to Japanese art through the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he served under the great curator, Ernest Fenollosa, and also through his travels to Japan. In 1891, Dow established the Ipswich Summer School for Art, and then went on to become a noted author and teacher at the Pratt Institute and Columbia University's Teacher College. In his textbook, Composition (1899), the artist outlined the principles of teaching art– line, color and "notan" which he described as "... a Japanese word meaning 'dark,light' … light reflected, or the massing of tones…"
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1992; Ruth Cole Kainen, Chevy Chase, Maryland
BMA, Levy Gallery hallway rotation, April 30 - November 4, 2012.
Inscribed: FACE: (printed), L.L.: 'IPSWICH PRINTS Color scheme from Hiroshige, No. I/Copyright 1902 by Arthur W. Dow Ipswich Mass'. VERSO: LRQ, Ruth Kainen's Collector's stamp.
Markings: none
