Japanese color prints
This 1917 New York catalogue of Japanese colour prints, issued by the American Art Association for collectors and dealers, reproduces ukiyo-e woodblock prints in halftone plates, with captions naming the artists and series. The pictures show snowy Edo scenes, a woman under a parasol, a riverbank with boats, and a veranda with figures and calligraphic panels. A designer could take from them the strong flat colour masses, bold diagonal compositions, and the framing of landscape against sky.
