Beauties Harvesting Bracken, from the series Gekkō’s Miscellaney

Cleveland Museum of Art

Beauties Harvesting Bracken, from the series Gekkō’s Miscellaney

Ōgata Gekkō

Date
c. 1886–1899
Medium
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

The print series Gekkō’s Miscellaney wanders through a variety of genres. This print captures an agricultural scene of women gathering bracken. Ōgata Gekkō distinguished himself as a younger artist in the first exhibition of the Painting Appreciation Society (Kangakai) in 1885. He went on to earn prizes at world’s fairs and expositions in both the US and Europe.

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