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Ohara Koson - Swallows and Wisteria

Swallows and Wisteria (1930s)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
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The Artist died in 1945 so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries where the copyright term is the Artist's life plus 70 years or fewer.
Ohara Koson
About the Artist

Ohara Koson was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.

Ohara Koson was famous as a master of kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs. Throughout a prolific career, in which he created around 500 prints, he went by three different titles: Ohara Hōson (小原豊邨), Ohara Shōson (小原祥邨) and Ohara Koson.

He was born Ohara Matao; it is thought that he started training in painting and design at the Ishikawa Prefecture Technical School in 1889–1893. He also studied painting with Suzuki Kason (1860–1919), although accounts differ on whether this happened during his school years or after he moved to Tokyo in the middle to late 1890s.

In Tokyo, he produced some ukiyo-e triptychs illustrating episodes of the Russo-Japanese War, but most of his production was prints of birds-and-flowers (kachō-e). He worked at first with publishers Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeidō) and Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya), signing his work Koson. Starting around 1926, he became associated with the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō, and signed his work Shōson. He also worked with the publisher Kawaguchi, signing his works Hōson.

Through his association with Watanabe, Ohara's work was exhibited abroad, and his prints sold well, particularly in the United States. He was active designing prints until at least 1935, and died at his home in Tokyo in 1945.

His work is held in several museums worldwide, including the Toledo Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the British Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Art Museums, the Rijksmuseum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Museum of New Zealand, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and the Clark Art Institute.

The Manggha museum in Krakow, Poland held a large retrospective in 2021 from the collection of Romanian musical artist Adrian Ciceu, brother of Eugen Cicero.

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Two playing dogs (1900 - 1930)

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Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)

More Artwork by Ohara Koson (View all 189 Artworks)

Hunting hawk (1900 - 1910)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)

Cuckoo in storm (1925 - 1936)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)

Torii in the snow (1900 - 1910)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)

Cockatoo And Pomegranate (20th Century)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)

Two peacocks on tree branch (1900 - 1930)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)

Sandpipers at sickle moon (1910 - 1930)

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945)
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