Lingering Snow on Mount Hira (Hira no bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei no uchi)
ca. 1834-35
Lingering Snow on Mount Hira shows a Chinese sensibility in the towering mountains printed in monochromatic colors, but the distant view over the jewel-toned lake adopts pictorial conventions from the Western landscape tradition. Hiroshige clearly defined the nearer mountains with jutting strokes of black and gray, then left a section of the white paper unprinted to highlight the farthest peak.
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
10 1/4 x 15 in. (26 x 38.1 cm)
Gift of Mary and Allan Kollar
2017.23.2
Provenance: [Sebastian Izzard, New York]; purchased from gallery by Allan Kollar, Seattle, Washington, 2009; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2017
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn