Item #16-3914 Kintarô Referees a Match between a Rooster and a Tengu, No. 1 from the series Mountain after Mountain (Yama mata yama) First edition of the woodcut. Totoya Hokkei.

Kintarô Referees a Match between a Rooster and a Tengu, No. 1 from the series Mountain after Mountain (Yama mata yama) First edition of the woodcut.

Edo period. Color woodcut . Very good condition. Unmounted. 208 x 180 mm....
Japanese, Edo period

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Betty Lark-Horovitz (1894-1995) was an accomplished graphic artist. She was commissioned to do etchings of several buildings at Purdue University in 1930. There were only 100 sets, each numbered and signed by the artist. That same year her engraved views of American cities and views With graver and woodblock over American Highways, was published. ( New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930.) She was a master of both architectural views as well as views of flora.

Betty was the wife of Dr. Karl Lark-Horovitz who was the head of the Department of Physics at Purdue from 1929 to the 1950s. After his death in 1958, she moved to Berkeley, CA.

Ref. Edan Milton Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940," Third Edition, p. 547...

Provenance: From the estate of tBetty Lark-Horovitz. Item #16-3914

Price: $400.00

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