Tsuchiya Kōitsu was a Japanese shin-hanga artist who trained for two decades as a painter before turning to woodblock prints in his fifties. His twilight and night scenes of shrines, snowfall and lantern-lit streets are among the most quietly atmospheric of the movement.
Best known for: Twilight scenes of Japanese shrines, snow, lantern light
Impressionism
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Light, weather and modern Paris on canvas.
Post-Impressionism
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Bold colour and personal vision past the Impressionists.
Japanese Woodblock
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Mount Fuji, the Great Wave and Edo street life.
Renaissance
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Italian and northern masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Botanical & Natural History
25
Plates of birds, flowers and insects drawn from life.
Pre-Raphaelite & Symbolist
20
Late Victorian myth, dream and gothic figure.
Art Nouveau Posters
14
Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec in the great Paris poster era.
Dutch Golden Age
15
Vermeer, Rembrandt and the quiet light of 1600s Holland.
Maps & Celestial Charts
4
Engraved world maps and star atlases from the age of exploration.
Romanticism
23
Storms, ruins and sublime landscapes from Turner, Friedrich and Goya.
Chinese Landscape
4
Song, Yuan and Ming masters of the mountain-and-water tradition.
Persian, Mughal & Indian
2
Miniatures and album leaves from the great Eastern courts.
Modernism & Abstraction
4
Hilma af Klint, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Malevich and the abstract pioneers.