Evening in Fukagawa
Emil Orlik
1900
Medium
color lithograph in blue, black, brown and yellow on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 23.5 × 36.7 cm (9 1/4 × 14 7/16 in.) sheet: 30.1 × 41.7 cm (11 7/8 × 16 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.432
About the Artist
Emil Orlik · 1870–1932
Emil Orlík (1870–1932) was a Czech painter, etcher, and lithographer whose cosmopolitan career bridged the artistic centers of Prague, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, and Tokyo. Born on July 21, 1870, in Prague, Orlík became one of the most important promoters of Japanese art and woodcut techniques in early twentieth-century Europe, directly studying traditional Japanese printmaking methods during two ext...