'Pair of Mallard Ducks' — Japanese Woodblock kachō-ga
By Ohara Koson
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ohara Koson, 'Pair of Mallard Ducks', color woodblock, c. 1920s. Signed 'Koson' in black ink with the artist’s red seal beneath, lower right. A superb, skillfully-inked impression, w...
Woodcut
$850
Deer Beneath Falling Maple Leaves — Shijō School Japanese Woodblock Print, Kyoto
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
ABOUT THE ARTIST Mori Sōsen (森 狙仙, 1747–1821) was among the most celebrated Japanese animal painters of the Edo period and a leading figure of the Shijō school in Kyoto.
Woodcut
"Cormorant and Egret" Japanese Woodblock Print of Birds in Water & Nature Poem
By Kitagawa Utamaro 1
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro the First (Japanese, 1753 - 1806) Publisher: Tsutaya Jūzaburō (Japanese, 1750 - 1797) Page Size: 10 x 15 in. Frame Size: 16 x 22 in. An Edo Period color woo...
Paper, Woodcut
$1,900Sale Price|32% Off
Original Japanese Watercolor and Woodblock Print of Orchid and Swallows
By Imao Keinen 1
Located in Burbank, CA
Orchid and small swallows (Hokuri, kotsubame). Original preparatory watercolor next to the finished original Japanese woodblock print. This is a highly finished preparatory watercolo...
Watercolor, Woodcut
$1,900Sale Price|32% Off
Original Japanese Watercolor and Woodblock Print of a Lark, Barley and Beans
By Imao Keinen 1
Located in Burbank, CA
Barley, broad beans and a lark (Omugi, soramame, hibari). Original preparatory watercolor next to the finished original Japanese woodblock print. This is a highly finished preparator...
Watercolor, Woodcut
Japanese Antique Woodblock Animals Eight Prints Collection Immediately Frameable
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan woodblock flower prints collection eight (8) different animals in original vibrant colors: rabbit, tiger, rooster, cow, crane, frog, swan, vibrant sun with crane Signed by va...
Paper
Unavailable
H 9.49 in W 9.89 in D 0.04 in
Bird & Flower, Ohara Koson, Moon, Shin Hanga, Japanese Woodblock Print, Geese
By Ohara Koson
Located in London, GB
Artist: Ohara Koson (1877-1945) Title: Two white-fronted geese in flight Date: Early 20th century Publisher: Daikoku-ya Size: 24.1 x 25.1 cm Condition report: Discolouration due to t...
Handmade Paper, Washi Paper, Pigment, Woodcut
Japanese Yellow Owl Woodblock
Located in Houston, TX
Yellow Owl against black background by artist unknown in the style of Kiyoshi Saitō. Visible area: 23” x 17.5”. Frame: 31” x 25”. Margins are obscured by framing; may have title, ar...
Woodcut
19th Century Japanese Woodblock - Bull Fighting
Located in Corsham, GB
A dynamic Japanese woodblock print depicting a man struggling with a bull. Signed and inscribed with characters. Presented in a contemporary black frame. On paper.
Woodcut
Japanese Rat Woodblock Print 2/5
Located in Houston, TX
Traditional style Japanese woodblock print of a rat with traditional style flowers. The work is stamped by the artist and editioned of 5. The print is framed in a gold frame with a w...
Woodcut
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H 18.71 in W 13.19 in
Ohara Koson (1877-1945) - Framed Japanese Woodblock, Carp Fish
By Ohara Koson
Located in Corsham, GB
An original Japanese woodblock depicting two elegant carp fish by Japanese printmaker, Ohara Koson. Koson has effortlessly captured a sense of stillness and beauty in this simplistic...
Woodcut
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H 16.34 in W 19.3 in
Kōno Bairei (1844-1895) - Late 19th Century Japanese Woodblock, Bairei's Owls
By Kono Bairei
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful Meiji Era Japanese woodblock by the artist Kōno Bairei (1844-1895). This print is taken from a copy of his illustrated book 'Bairei's Painting Manual of One Hundred Bird...
Woodcut
Japanese Lion Woodblock
Located in New York, NY
Japanese School. Lion. Japan, circa 1900. Original color woodblock.
Paper
Japanese Fan with Rabbit Woodblock Print
Located in New York, NY
Original Japanese woodblock print, circa 1920.
Paper
'Wading Egret' — Japanese Woodblock kacho-e
By Ohara Koson
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ohara Koson, 'Wading Egret', color woodblock, c. 1900 - 1910. Signed 'Koson' in black ink with the artist’s red seal beneath, lower left. A superb, skillfully-inked impression, with ...
Woodcut
Japanese Woodblock Tiger Print 129/900
By Toshjiro Nenjiro Inagaki
Located in Houston, TX
White and black tiger comprised of large, graphic shapes printed on a sepia brown background. It is signed and numbered by "Mikumo" in the bottom right corner. Mikumo Mokuhansha was ...
Woodcut
'Mandarin Ducks' — Japanese Woodblock Print, c. 1910
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Kogyo Tsukioka, 'Mandarin Ducks', color woodcut, c. 1910. Signed 'Kogyo', lower right. A fine impression from a later printing, on cream Japan paper, with fresh colors; the image pri...
Woodcut
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H 16.75 in W 12.75 in D 0.75 in
Antique Japanese Woodblock Print- Wading Bird in Flight
By Kono Bairei
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique Japanese Woodblock Print- Wading Bird in Flight Page from the 1881 book "Album of 100 Birds" depicting a snipe flying through the air by Kōno Bairei (Japanese b. 1844 d. 189...
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
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H 13.69 in W 7.13 in
'Lapwing on a Tree Stump' — Japanese Woodblock kachō-ga
By Ohara Koson
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ohara Koson, 'Lapwing on a Tree Stump', color woodblock, c. 1920s. Signed 'Koson' in black ink with the artist’s red seal beneath, lower right. A superb, skillfully-inked impression,...
Woodcut
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H 14.75 in W 6.5 in
'Barn Swallows and Willow' — 1920s Japanese Woodblock Kacho-ga
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ito Sōzan, 'Barn Swallows and Willow', color woodblock, c. 1920. Signed 'Sozan' in black ink, upper right, with the artist’s red seal beneath. A superb, skilfully-inked impression, w...
Woodcut
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H 10 in W 15 in
"Quail, Skylark (Uzura hibari)" Japanese Woodblock Print of Birds w Nature Poem
By Kitagawa Utamaro 1
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro the First (Japanese, 1754-1806) Publisher: Tsutaya Jūzaburō (Japanese, 1750 - 1797) Page Size: 10 x 15 in. Frame Size: 16 x 22 in. An Edo Period color woodb...
Paper, Woodcut
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H 15.5 in W 10.13 in
Japanese Woodblock Print of Single Snowy Heron in the Rain Published by Watanabe
By Gakusui Ide
Located in Houston, TX
Japanese woodblock print of a single white heron by Japanese artist Gakusui Ide and published by Shozaburo Watanabe. The piece features a white heron set against a stark black backgr...
Wood, Paper, Ink
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H 15.5 in W 10.13 in
Japanese Woodblock Print of Two White Herons in the Snow Published by Watanabe
By Gakusui Ide
Located in Houston, TX
Japanese woodblock print of two white herons by Japanese artist Gakusui Ide and published by Shozaburo Watanabe. The piece features two white herons set against a stark black backgro...
Wood, Paper, Archival Ink
Homecoming of the King
By Edward Julius Detmold
Located in Plano, TX
E B Shuldham, who had acquired a notable collection of Japanese woodblock prints of plants and animals. The brothers drew animals and plants at a very early age, and at 13 they exhib...
Etching
Rivals
By Edward Julius Detmold
Located in Plano, TX
E B Shuldham, who had acquired a notable collection of Japanese woodblock prints of plants and animals. The brothers drew animals and plants at a very early age, and at 13 they exhib...
Etching
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H 14.65 in W 10.24 in D 0.04 in
Ohara Koson, Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Water Lilies, Pink, Flowers, Art
By Ohara Koson
Located in London, GB
Artist: Koson Ohara (1877-1945) [signed Hōson] Title: Flowering Water Lilies Publisher: Kawaguchi Bijutsusha Date: 1930 Dimensions: 26 x 37.2 cm Koson's water lilies in various st...
Handmade Paper, Mulberry Paper, Washi Paper, Pigment, Woodcut
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H 14.3 in W 7.49 in D 0.04 in
Ohara Koson, Ukiyo-e, Shin Hanga, Bird & Flower, Snow, Japanese Woodblock Print
By Ohara Koson
Located in London, GB
Artist: Ohara Koson (1877-1945) Title: Two Copper Pheasants in the Snow Date: Early 20th century Publisher: Daikoku-ya 36.3 x 19 cm Two Japanese copper pheasants wander in a snow c...
Handmade Paper, Washi Paper, Pigment, Woodcut
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H 12.64 in W 7.45 in D 0.04 in
Shin-Hanga, Ohara Koson, Bird & Flower, Japanese Woodblock Print
By Ohara Koson
Located in London, GB
Artist: Ohara Koson (1877-1945) Title: Copper Pheasant Perching on Branch Date: Early 20th century Publisher: Daikoku-ya ? 32.1 x 18.9 cm This image shows a Japanese copper present ...
Handmade Paper, Washi Paper, Pigment, Woodcut
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H 14.61 in W 7.41 in D 0.04 in
Ohara Koson, Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Camelia, Bird, Ukiyo-e, Spring
By Ohara Koson
Located in London, GB
Artist: Koson Ohara (1877-1945) Title: Bunting Perched on a Camellia Branch Publisher: Daikoku-ya Date: Late 19th century Dimensions: 18.8 x 37.1 cm Condition: Slight discolouration ...
Handmade Paper, Washi Paper, Pigment, Woodcut, Mulberry Paper
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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