EAST GATE PYENG KOREA OLD ASIAN ORIENTAL KOREAN PRINT

EAST GATE PYENG KOREA OLD ASIAN ORIENTAL KOREAN PRINT (image 1/1)
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VINTAGE ASIAN KOREAN PRINT DATE ACTUALLY PRINTED circa 1946 EAST GATE, PYENG YANG Artist: Elizabeth Keith [British Printmaker, 1887-1956] Elizabeth Keith was born in Scotland and was a self-taught artist. Her sister married an English publisher who worked in Tokyo and Elizabeth went to visit her t in 1915 intending to stay for a short holiday. She travelled to China, Korea and the Philippines, painting watercolours of the fascinating scenes she saw. On her return to Tokyo she held a small exhibition and the entrepreneurial Japanese print publisher Watanabe Shozaburo persuaded her to allow his highly skilled carvers and printers to produce woodblock prints from some of her paintings. Keith wanted to master the techniques herself and she stayed on in Tokyo to study woodblock printing. Before long her blocks were carved and printed with little aid from Watanabe's artisans. Her first prints met with great success. Watanabe was delighted to publish prints by an artist whose work would be appreciated by European and American collectors. Keith was influenced by Fritz Capelari, the Austrian artist whose prints were published by Watanabe and who in his own turn had gone to Japan after the success in Vienna and Berlin of his countryman, Emil Orlik's prints made t early in the century. Keith travelled throughout East Asia and produced read more
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