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Morioka Kansuke
The Seascapes (Message 84, 85, 95, 105)1984

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Screenprint of ocean waves breaking onto shore, rendered in dark olive-brown and cream-white with a coarse photomechanical dot pattern
Lithograph of ocean waves breaking along a shoreline, rendered in deep purple-black ink with dense stippled texture suggesting sea foam and wet sand.
Screenprint of a coastal seascape in warm brown and black tones, with shallow surf and wet sand in the foreground, a band of dark water in the middle ground, and a pale dotted sky, rendered with dense stippled dot patterns throughout.
Screenprint seascape in warm sepia tones, low horizon with breaking waves in the foreground rendered through dense stippled dot patterns, pencil signature and edition number visible in the lower margin.

Morioka Kansuke, The Seascapes (Message 84), 1984, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Pircher, Nichols and Meeks, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Morioka Kansuke
Title
The Seascapes (Message 84, 85, 95, 105)
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1984
Period
Shōwa period (1926-1989)
Medium
Four screenprints
Dimensions
(.1)Image: 23 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. (59.3 x 80.0 cm); Paper: 27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in. (69.8 x 100.0 cm); (.2) Image: 23 1/2 x 31 1/2 in. (59.6 x 80.0 cm); Paper: 27 3/4 x 39 3/8 in. (70.4 x 100.0 cm); (.3) Image: 23 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. (59.3 x 80.0 cm); Paper: 27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in. (69.8 x 100.0 cm); (.4) Image: 23 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. (59.3 x 80.0 cm); Paper: 27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in. (69.8 x 100.0 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Pircher, Nichols and Meeks
Accession Number
M.85.132.1-.4
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art