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Solitude. A suite of eleven woodcuts inspired by the essay, Solitude, from Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

Solitude. A suite of eleven woodcuts inspired by the essay, Solitude, from Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

by Naoko Matsubara (b. 1937)
The suite is housed in a handmade portfolio wrapped in a double-sized color woodcut. Accompanying the suite is a letterpress booklet containing Thoreau's essay with woodcut illustratons by the artist, and a signed and numbered colophon page.
Date: 1971
Publisher: Aquarius Press
Edition: 193/200, from the principal edition
Paper: each print approximately 15-5/8 x 14-1/4 inches
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Solitude. A suite of eleven woodcuts inspired by the essay, Solitude, from Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Bugle - Still Life. (At the wharf.) Lake Chuzenji in Autumn. Bicycle Race (Keirin.) Nakamura Kanzaburo as the Tobaconist Genshichi, from the series Shin han butai no sugata-e (Thirty Contemporary Actor Prints) Mt. Kashimayari. Mother and Child. Tateyama Betsuzan.