Very little is known
about the Japanese shin hanga artist Gesso Yoshimoto. But when the
famous collector and art dealer Robert O. Muller passed away in 2003,
he left in his collection a very large number of beautiful woodblock
prints by this artist.
Kacho-e
and Landscape Prints
Known are a large
number of landscape print designs and kacho-e (images of birds and
flowers). They were published by Hasegawa and by Nishinomiya Yosaku.
The designs are very well made from an aspect of craftsmanship and
artistic composition.
Gesso Yoshimoto must
have had an art training in traditional Japanese painting. He may
even have been a painter, and his designs may have been transformed
by professional carvers and printers into woodblock prints on
commission of the publishers Hasegawa and Nishinomiya.
But we really do not
know. This is a guess. The woodblock prints however make the
impression as if they had been designed specifically for export,
mainly to the United States and Europe. This was typical for the shin
hanga art movement.
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Two
swallows and Wisteria
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