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| Artist: | Bartlett Charles |
| Title: | Negishi |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1916 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Watanabe Shozaburo — 渡辺 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Watanabe Shozaburo — 渡辺 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 46122 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
"Negishi" 1916. The image of coldness is captured in the print. Signed in red pencil in lower left margin "Charles W Bartlett". In lower left margin,
APPROXIMATE Print dimensions: (side to side) 9 3/4 inches by (top to bottom) 14 3/4 inches.
APPROXIMATE Image dimensions: (side to side) 9 inches by (top to bottom) 14 inches.
This particular impression was part of his second portfolio, and has been described as follows:
“In this image, a path of footsteps in the otherwise pristine, white snow winds its way toward the cluster of humble shelters and past a lonely, elegant tree. The people wear shallow dome hats. The hats curve downs, their shoulders slump, and while they trudge their feet are erased and re-erased with each heavy step. They are weary of snow, but having to share it with everyone they know, they never complain. In contrast to the people, the trees lift up. Their branches are weighted down by snow, but freed of the burden of leaves. The snow falls lightly. It blows off in the slightest wind, melts in a single day of sun. Winter gives the trees an airy quality, a sort of beautiful and temporary death.” |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
チャールズ・バートレット「横浜根岸の雪」大正5年の渡邊庄三郎木版画希少！
○出版元：1916年初刷りAシールWanatabe（渡邊庄三郎）千葉市美術館、横浜美術館所蔵
チャールズ・バートレット本人による直筆サイン
状態：右下の隅に小さなしわ、裏面の弱汚れ。優れた色合い、全体的に良い状態です。 画像でご判断ください
◇サイズ：37cmx25.6cm 誤差が出る場合は御了承下さい。 |
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| Artist Bio: |
Charles William Bartlett (1860-1940) was one of the first artists to work with the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. Bartlett studied at the Royal Academy in London and at Academie Julian in Paris. Until his travels to Japan, Ceylon, Indonesia, and China in 1913, Bartlett worked primarily as a landscape and genre painter. In 1915 he met famous print publisher Watanabe, with whom he collaborated on the publication of a number of "shin hanga" style colour woodblock prints during the next decade, using Watanabe's studio to carve and create his own woodblocks. Bartlett designed 38 woodblock prints for Watanabe, beginning in 1916 and lasting through 1925. Twenty-two of these prints were produced within the first year, many with the date 1916 carved into the key block. The first series of prints consisted of six Indian scenes plus a cover print of the Taj Mahal. This was followed by a series of six Japanese scenes. Many of Bartlett's prints and etchings were scenes from his travels through Southeast Asia, China, and later Hawaii. After 1917, Bartlett settled in Hawaii where he remained for the rest of his life.
It is little known that in actual fact Bartlett commissioned Watanabe to publish his 38 scenes, rather than being an artist working for Watanabe, and from his base in Hawaii Bartlett held a very tight reign over Watanabe's production of each scene, requesting numerous fine colour changes for each scene. Because each of the scenes were commissioned and thus paid for by Bartlett , he maintained ownership of all the woodblocks, which were shipped back to Hawaii after each edition and are still kept in Hawaii even to this day.
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