1914
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dancing Fox is a 1914 by Ohara Koson, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A fox dances on its hind legs in the rain, holding a giant green leaf on its head. This is a whimsical scene, and it's interesting that Ohara Koson created it as a woodcut. He was a prolific printmaker who often depicted nature scenes, like flowers and birds. To learn more about similar prints, check out the work of artist: Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877–1945)
In this whimsical Japanese color woodcut, a fox holds a giant green leaf on its head and dances on its hind legs in the rain. A prolific printmaker, Ohara Koson created hundreds of kachōga , a genre encompassing images of nature. Translating characteristics of traditional Japanese painting into color woodcuts, Koson depicted flowers, insects, fish, birds, and mammals. Dancing Fox is one of a few in which he imagined a lighthearted scenario.
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Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the forefront of shinsaku-hanga and shin-hanga art movements.
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