Okumura Kōichi
Snow at Demachi, 1940s-50s
Hanging scroll; ink, mineral colors and shell powder on silk
Overall size 87½ x 22 in. (222 x 56 cm)
Image size 51 x 16½ in. (129.5 x 42 cm)
Image size 51 x 16½ in. (129.5 x 42 cm)
T-5288
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Signed and sealed at lower right Kōichi 厚一 Comes with double wooden storage boxes, the outer one in tamenuri lacquer Kyoto-born Okumura Kōichi graduated in 1933 from Kyoto Municipal School...
Signed and sealed at lower right Kōichi 厚一
Comes with double wooden storage boxes, the outer one in tamenuri lacquer
Kyoto-born Okumura Kōichi graduated in 1933 from Kyoto Municipal School of Painting. After a period of study under Nishimura Goun, he was first selected for the Teiten national exhibition in 1929 and would continue to show at the Teiten and its successors on ten occasions until 1947. In 1948 he discontinued his association with the official exhibition system and together with artists such as Fukuda Toyoshirō co-founded the Sōzō Bijutsu (Creative Art) group, dedicated to innovation in Nihonga-style painting; three years later the group merged with Shin Seisakuha Kyōkai (New Creative Association) and he became a member of its Nihonga division. From 1960 to 1970 Okumura served as a professor at Kyoto Municipal College of Fine Arts (now Kyoto City University of Arts).
Known for his extensive travels throughout Japan, Okumura also loved to paint beauty spots closer to home, very often in winter, as seen in this crisp, atmospheric view of Demachi in his native Kyoto, where the Kamo and Takano Rivers meet.
Comes with double wooden storage boxes, the outer one in tamenuri lacquer
Kyoto-born Okumura Kōichi graduated in 1933 from Kyoto Municipal School of Painting. After a period of study under Nishimura Goun, he was first selected for the Teiten national exhibition in 1929 and would continue to show at the Teiten and its successors on ten occasions until 1947. In 1948 he discontinued his association with the official exhibition system and together with artists such as Fukuda Toyoshirō co-founded the Sōzō Bijutsu (Creative Art) group, dedicated to innovation in Nihonga-style painting; three years later the group merged with Shin Seisakuha Kyōkai (New Creative Association) and he became a member of its Nihonga division. From 1960 to 1970 Okumura served as a professor at Kyoto Municipal College of Fine Arts (now Kyoto City University of Arts).
Known for his extensive travels throughout Japan, Okumura also loved to paint beauty spots closer to home, very often in winter, as seen in this crisp, atmospheric view of Demachi in his native Kyoto, where the Kamo and Takano Rivers meet.