Once Upon a Time

© Kuroda Shigeki

Once Upon a Time

Currently not on view

Princeton Collects

Once Upon a Time,

1988

Kuroda Shigeki 黒田茂樹, born 1953, Yokohama, Japan; active United States and Yokohama
2024-475

Information

Title
Once Upon a Time
Dates

1988

Maker
Kuroda Shigeki 黒田茂樹
Medium
Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and engraving
Dimensions
image: 35.2 × 58.7 cm (13 7/8 × 23 1/8 in.) sheet: 53 × 75.9 cm (20 7/8 × 29 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bill and Roberta Stein
Object Number
2024-475
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Place Depicted

North America, United States, Washington, Seattle

Signatures
Editioned, titled, and signed in graphite, along bottom of image: 12/50 | Once upon a time | Shigeki Kuroda
Culture
Japanese
Period
Showa
Type
etchings, prints
Subject
bicyclists, umbrellas, cityscapes, figures (representations), groups of people, bicycles

1988/9 - ? In possession of artist
? Purchased by Buschlen Mowatt Fine Arts Ltd., Vancouver British Columbia, directly from the artist
? - 2021 Collection of Buschlen Mowatt Fine Arts Ltd.
2021 Purchased by Bill and Roberta Stein from Buschlen Mowatt Fine Arts Ltd.
2021 - 2024 Collection of Bill and Roberta Stein
December 2024 Gifted to the Princeton University Art Museum by Bill and Roberta Stein

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