Toshi Yoshida, "Hawaiian Fishes B" (PS)

Designed as a separate work or in tandem with "Hawaiian Fishes A" as a diptych, this lovely work shows tropical fish swimming among the reefs off the Hawaii coast. Part of Toshi Yoshida's popular designs documenting his travels throughout the United States, this is a colored variant printed in 1983 from blocks carved in 1962.

Date: 1983
Size: Oban (approx. 9.5" x 14.5")
Lifetime edition, pencil-signed
Condition: Fine/excellent
Publisher: The Artist
Frame Shown: 16" x 24", Modern Metal, Walnut

Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995) is one of the twentieth century's most important woodblock print artists. Toshi is part of a long and famous line of past and present artists whose influence and popularity persist to this day. His father, Hiroshi Yoshida, was a master painter and woodblock print artists at the height of the shin-hanga print movement.