Wapping

Boats, Figure Study, Harbors, wharves, Marine, Rivers, Supports

Dimensions

Image Dimensions: 21.7 x 17.1 cm tipped to plate
Support Dimensions: 40.5 x 30.2 cm primary mount shown slightly cropped

From Photogravure.com: This study of the Thames at Wapping shows Coburn’s attention to the motifs and structures of Japanese prints. In 1903, he studied with the American artist and educator Arthur Wesley Dow, who taught Japanese-inspired compositional elements he called ‘notan’. Coburn later collected prints by Hokusai and Hiroshige as well as contemporary Japanese works. Read more here.