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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Utagawa Hiroshige
1797–1858 · Japanese
- Born
- 1797 · Edo
- Died
- 1858 · Edo
1,175 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Utagawa Hiroshige, born Andō Tokutarō, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the last great master of that tradition.
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Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重) or Andō Hiroshige (安藤 広重), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject, though Hiroshige's approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai's bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige's prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques. For scholars and collectors, Hiroshige's death marked the beginning of a rapid decline in the ukiyo-e genre, especially in the face of the westernization that followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Hiroshige's work came to have a marked influence on western European painting towards the close of the 19th century as a part of the trend in Japonism. Western European artists, such as Manet and Monet, collected and closely studied Hiroshige's compositions: Vincent van Gogh, for instance, painted copies of some Hiroshige prints.
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1,175
Registered works
1,175
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Featured works
Selected registered works by Utagawa Hiroshige
Selected from 1,175 works by Utagawa Hiroshige in the Collect24 Registry.
Utagawa Hiroshige
Full Moon on Kanazawa, Musashi, 1857
One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
35.9 × 25.4 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-539051
Utagawa Hiroshige
Mountain and River on the Kiso Road, 1857
Triptych of color woodblock prints
36 × 25.2 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-207751
Utagawa Hiroshige
Full Moon on Kanazawa, Musashi, 1857
One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
35.9 × 25.4 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-207036
Utagawa Hiroshige
Evening View of the Eight Famous Places near Kanazawa Under Full Moon in Musashi Province, 1857
One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
35.6 × 24.8 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-206372
Utagawa Hiroshige
Evening View of the Eight Famous Places near Kanazawa Under Full Moon in Musashi Province, 1857
One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
35.6 × 24.8 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-206360
Utagawa Hiroshige
Mountain and River on the Kiso Road, 1857
One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
36 × 25.2 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-206307
Utagawa Hiroshige
Evening View of the Eight Famous Places near Kanazawa Under Full Moon in Musashi Province, 1857
One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
35.6 × 24.8 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-206296
Utagawa Hiroshige
Mountain and River on the Kiso Road, 1857
One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
36 × 25.2 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-206278
Utagawa Hiroshige
Mountain and River on the Kiso Road, 1857
One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
36 × 25.2 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-205694
Utagawa Hiroshige
The Whirlpools of Awa, 1857
One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
38.4 × 25.8 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-204407
Utagawa Hiroshige
The Whirlpools of Awa, 1857
One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
38.4 × 25.8 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-203828
Utagawa Hiroshige
Night Rain at the Azuma Shrine (from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo), mid-1830s
color woodblock print
21.6 × 34.4 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-203038
Museums and collections
Where works by Utagawa Hiroshige are registered
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
635 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
458 works
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
73 works
- National Museum of Asian Art
Washington, D.C., United States
4 works
- Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
4 works
- Finnish National Gallery
Helsinki, Finland
1 work
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