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Messenger with a Letter, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)" Wall Art
ART BY: Kitagawa Utamaro
Messenger with a Letter, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)" Wall Art
ART BY: Kitagawa Utamaro
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Messenger with a Letter, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)" is a color woodblock print; oban by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806), dated c. 1797/98. The artist is catalogued as Japanese. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 1992 × 3000 px (1.6 MB). Catalogued under Prints and Japanese (culture or style), in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 649 works by Kitagawa Utamaro, a Japanese artist.
Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Kitagawa Utamaro →
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