Self Portrait

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Self Portrait

Shiko Munakata
(1903 - 1975)
artist

Object Type

Print

Medium

Woodcut on paper

Date

ca. 1950-1959

Dimensions

90 x 68 mm

Credit

Gift of James W. Elder

Accession Number

1988.37.214

  • chops (printers' marks) - Embossed marks or seals impressed into a print by printers, artists, print workshops, or publishers signifying where and by whom the print was made.
  • Japanese
  • printmakers - Persons who prepare, conceive, and develop drawings and other art work and prepare printmaking media used to print fine arts graphics. For persons in the commercial printing trade, use "printers (people)."
  • self-portraits - An art work in which the artist produces a likeness of himself or herself.
  • woodcut (process) - A relief process in which the design is cut into and printed from the plank side of a wood block; distinct from "wood engraving (process)," which is a relief process using the grain end of a wood block.

 

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