Artist: Serizawa, Keisuke (Japanese 1895-1984)
Title: Emperor's Crest (Crane and Minogame)
Medium: hand stenciled Dyed Paper
Dimension: 13 x 17.5 inches
Description: Keisuke Serizawa was a Renaissance Man. His combining two textile dyeing techniques, the bingata of Okinawa and the Japanese ise katagami (stencil dyeing) resulted in his own kataezome stencil dyeing. He used his kataezome process for dyeing kimono fabrics, for screens, wall hangings, fans, scrolls, calendars, noren (shop curtains), quilt covers, prints. He illustrated his own books, painted on paper, wood, ceramic, and glass and even helped design the Kurashiki Ohara Art Museum.
Provenance: The Estate of Margaret and Howard Hanson. Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music. He won a Pulitzer Prize (in 1944 for his Symphony no. 4) and received numerous other awards.
Frame Type: black metal
Frame Size: 19 x 23.5 inches

in good condition floated in the frame