Nostalgia (Boston) / Saitô Kiyoshi
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1958/2.36
- Title
- Nostalgia (Boston)
- Artist
- Saitô Kiyoshi
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- (active 1907 - 1997)
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1956
- Object Creation Place
- Asia
- Japan
- Creation Place 1
- Asia
- Creation Place 2
- Japan
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
- Style/Group/Movement
- Sôsaku hanga
- Inscription
- Signed, lower left: Kiyoshi Saito
- Period
- Japan, Showa Era (1926-1989)
- Dimensions
- 53 cm x 38.7 cm (20 7/8 in. x 15 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- color print
- Physical Description
- The scene shows a group of buildings with white colored rooftops. Two buildings rise up in the foreground on the right and left. The right building has a red side with vertical lines hashed into it. The left building has two white triangles on its roof. In the middle ground is a smaller building with a green-domed tower rising up the middle of the composition. A small red figure stands on the white ground to the right of this tower. The background shows the large white rooftop of another building, with small dark rooflines of buildings visible behind it.
- Subject Matter
- This woodblock print shows a city scene of Boston in the snow.
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- building divisions
- buildings and the land
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- earth sciences concepts
- geographic and political locations
- massachusetts (state)
- north and central america (continent)
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- precipitation
- scientific concepts
- suffolk (county)
- towers (building divisions)
- united states (nation)
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 841 x 1143
- File Size
- 55 KB
- Record
- 1958/2.36
- Link to this Item
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"Nostalgia (Boston); Saitô Kiyoshi." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1958-sl-2.36/1958_2.36.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
