"Travels with the Master: El Capitan"

(Meishou to no tabi: Erukyapitan)

Size: dai oban tate-e 18.875 by 13.5 in., 48 by 34.2 cm

Signed in pencil at bottom right margin, Paul BINNIE, the series title on the upper left margin, Meishou To No Tabi, followed by the print title Erukyapitan, numbered on the bottom left margin x/100 and dated - 2025

Edition: 100

Description: A large oban print of El Capitan, in Yosemite Valley in California, is the ninth design in Paul Binnie’s ongoing series, Travels with the Master (Meisho to no Tabi), through which Binnie revisits sites depicted by respected Japanese painter and printmaker Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950). Yoshida visited Yosemite in 1924 and painted the study that was the basis for his woodblock print released in 1925.  Utilizing 34 colors printed from hand-carved cherry wood and other wood blocks, Binnie depicts the cliff from the south-west, near the Merced River in the foreground, whereas Yoshida viewed the cliff from further east, giving a profile view of the rock. Binnie depicts the warm afternoon light of a September day, with much of the foreground in shadow but the upper cliff in warm sunlight and colorful reflections in the river, while Yoshida represented morning, with the light from behind the artist from the East.

Condition: Mint