JAPANESE PRINTS Munkakata Shiko The Way of the Woodcut

Sale 2387 - Lot 265

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MUNAKATA, SHIKO. The "Way" of the Woodcut. 3 woodcuts on Okawara paper (No Footprints Show, Where Flowers Grow Deep and The Child Plants and Oak Tree in the Garden), 300x205 mm; 11 3/4 x 8 inches (sheets), full margins. 8vo, original string-tied printed paper-covered boards. Designed and type set by Igal Roodenko and printed at his press by James Lanier. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-dono Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications, The Museum of Modern Art. Brooklyn: Pratt Adlib Press, 1961

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number 278 of 300 copies on japanese okawara paper reserved for friends of the Pratt Graphics Workshop, from a total edition of 1800. It was the third title in a series of works published by the Pratt Adlib Press under the direction of Fritz Eichenberg, Chairman of the Dept. of Graphic Arts and Illustration, The Art School, Pratt Institute where Munakata was a guest instructor in 1959.