ELIZABETH KEITH (1887-1956) WOODBLOCK, SCARCE, ORIGINAL, NO RESERVE!
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We started this as a buy it now but since so many of you were watching and asking, we have relisted in our standard format of $25 first bid with no reserve. Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956). Description: A rare woodblock from this highly collected artist. Title: East Gate, Pyeng Yang, Korea. Artist: Keith, Elizabeth, 1887-1956 . Date: 1925 . Dimensions: 12 1/4 x 17 5/8 inches Illustrated: Keith, pl. 59 Shipping: Please note that the woodblock is framed in a very large frame but one that can be used to great effect. Cost of shipping with the current frame is roughly $100.00 in the US. We can't ship with the frame outside of the US as it is too large. The woodblock can also be shipped without the frame in the US and shipping would run around $30.00. Please do not pay until you decide what you would like and we send a final invoice.Elizabeth Keith was born in Scotland and raised in London. We have no record of her having formal training in the arts. In 1915 she joined her sister in Japan and stayed for nine years. It was a fruitful period for Keith as she sketched in pencil and watercolors during her travels in Japan, China, Korea, and the Philippines.In 1919 an exhibition in Tokyo of her watercolors on Korean subjects caught the attention of the central figure of the shin hanga movement, the publisher Watanabe, who soon had his studio
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