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Red Fruit
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Red Fruit

Date1972
Maker Ikeda Shuzo Japanese, 1922 - 2004
Label TextIkeda Shuzo is best known for depicting playful children and their appreciation of nature. He is known to fully employ the texture of wood in his prints, as seen here. Through the image of an innocent girl holding a branch with red fruit for a bird perched on her fingers, Ikeda expresses a child’s tenderness and fascination with nature.
Object number98.53.86
Credit LineGift of Frances and Thomas Blakemore
MediumWoodblock print
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