Ide Gakusui 井出岳水, 1899-1982.
Ide Gakusui is a lesser known artist whose print designs were published by Watanabe Shozaburo in the late 1940's and 50's. Born in Yamanashi in 1899, Gakusui studied Japanese-style painting with Yamonouchi Tamon and Araki Kanpo. He moved to China in 1929 and lived there until after World War II. In 1949, he began to collaborate with Watanabe on bird and flower designs. He is best known for his prints of large cranes and herons. Much of Gakusui's work is realistic, resembling the designs of Ohara Koson and other kacho-e (bird and flower print) artists.
See:
- Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1992), p. 38.
Creator.Personal Name: Ide Gakusui, 1899-1982.
Creator.Role: print-maker
Title: 雨中アジサイ (Hydrangea in Rain)
Description: woodblock print with artist's seal within image and signature at bottom; July Showa 24 (1949). Later impression from original blocks. Watanabe publisher's seal in lower left of image. Red Heisei era Watanabe seal in left margin. Title and date in right margin. Dated July Showa 24 (1949).
Date: 1949.
Subject: Flowers.
Type: Woodcuts.
Style.Period: Modern.
Technique: Prints.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 10.6 x 15.7 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
ID: Ide Gakusui L-1
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
