Sounds in the Night, 吉田千鶴子 Chizuko Yoshida

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Sounds in the Night, 吉田千鶴子 Chizuko Yoshida
Sounds in the Night, 吉田千鶴子 Chizuko Yoshida
吉田千鶴子 Chizuko Yoshida
Sounds in the Night
1953
吉田千鶴子 Chizuko Yoshida, artist
1924–2017
Sounds in the Night, 1953
Where object was made: Japan
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 407 x 276 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 381 x 245 mm
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 50.8 x 40.64 cm
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 2025.0034
On display: Marshall Balcony
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Brush, Block, and Blood: Three Generations of Yoshida Women Printmakers

In Sounds in the Night, Chizuko translates the energy of postwar Tokyo’s avant-garde circles into rhythmic abstraction. Bold intersecting lines in black, orange, and blue pulse against overlapping planes of indigo and violet, suggesting sound waves or flickering lights. Created the year she married fellow artist Hodaka Yoshida, this dynamic print reflects both her engagement with modernist ideas and the Yoshida family’s collective creative awakening in the early 1950s.

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Brush, Block, and Blood: Three Generations of Yoshida Women Printmakers
Kris Ercums, curator
2026