Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Nihonbashi

Artist Sekino Jun'ichiro 関野凖一郎 (Japanese, 1914 - 1988)

Datec. 1960

Made/manufacturedJapan

MediumWatercolor on paper

Dimensions15 x 21 5/16 in. (38.1 x 54.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Maggi McKay in honor of David Cofrin and Mickey Singer; Robert H. and Kathleen M. Axline Acquisition Endowment; The David A. Cofrin Fund for Asian Art; friends of the Harn Museum; and by exchange, gift of Dr. and Mrs. David A. Cofrin

Object number2012.29.3

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ASIAN

DescriptionGraphite or charcoal sketch of the expressway with watercolor and possibly crayon, on paper. This watercolor of the expressway zooming above the old Nihonbashi Bridge is a preparatory work for the 1960 print, Nihonbashi, which was a part of Sekino's print series, Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido, begun in 1959 and completed in 1974.