Toshi Yoshida, "Japanese Antelopes in Snow"

This work by Toshi Yoshida exemplifies the artist's love for depicting animals in their natural, and often beautiful, surroundings. Here we see two Japanese serow (or antelope) foraging in a deep snow covered forest. In Japan, the serow are highly protected and treasured animals and live mostly on Honshu in dense wooded areas. A marvelous, and large, woodblock print brimming with depth and detail. 

Date: 1981
Size: Dai-Oban (image approx. 14.5" x 20")
Edition: 168/800
Condition: Fine/excellent
Publisher: The Artist

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.