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Utagawa Toyoharu, artist
Japanese, 1735 - 1814
Edo fukagawa ohashi nakasu no zu, 1770 - 1780
color woodcut
25.8 x 38.6 cm (image)
Gift of Patricia Brown McNamara, Jane Brown Dunaway, and Helen Brown Jarman in memory of Mary Wattis Brown 64.47.118

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Artist Biography: other names used: Utagawa Masaki, Shin'emon, Tajimaya Shojiro, Ichiryusai, Sen'o, Senryu-sai, Shojiro, Shoju, Toyoharu; Ukiyo-e painter, printmaker; studied in Kyoto under the Kano master Tsuruzawa Tangei; from about 1763 studied under Shigenaga and Toriyama Sekien in Edo; his earliest works were prints, but in the 1780's and 90's did paintings pioneering in views of foreign lands; did some prints after Dutch and German engravings;