Featured Artist at the e.Gallery: I Hiroshige


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Featured Artist at the e.Gallery this week is a 19th Century artist, I Hiroshige [Japanese, 1797-1858] Link: http://fineart.elib.com/fineart.php?dir=Alphabetical/Hiroshige_I

Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese painter and printmaker, known especially for his landscape prints. The last great figure of the Ukiyo-e, or popular, school of printmaking, he transmuted everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes that made him even more successful than his contemporary, Hokusai.


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The Sea off Satta

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The Plum Garden in Kameido

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Dyers’ Quarter, Kanda

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Moon Pine, Ueno
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