The Tree after Hiroshige

Hiroshige was an 18th century Japanese master of the woodcut print.  Since the 19th century, when these prints started arriving in Europe, the influence on Western artists has been profound.  This etching is yet another updated interpretation by a Western artist of those prints that the Japanese refer to as scenes from the floating world.  Steir was born in 1940, and has been exhibiting internationally since the early 1970s. She lives in New York where she engages an ongoing conversation with art history, 19th-century Romantic painting, Abstract Expressionism, and Chinese painting.