Onobunai, Hokkaido
Artist
Toshio Shibata(Japanese, born 1949)Japanese, born 1949
CultureJapanese
Titles
- Onobunai, Hokkaido
Date1988
Place depictedOnobunai, Japan
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionssight image: 39 3/4 × 49 5/8 inches (101 × 126 cm.)
sight mat: 47 × 59 inches (119.4 × 149.8 cm.)
sight mat: 47 × 59 inches (119.4 × 149.8 cm.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Alexandra Marshall
Object number91.269
Not on view
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Toshio Shibata has long been interested in the man-made structures that engineers have devised to control erosion, channel or dam rivers, reinforce rock faces, and otherwise hold back the forces of nature. Trained as a painter, he delights in the abstract visual play between the natural world and human interventions.
ProvenanceKoko Yamagishi; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Past/Present: Photography from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 8, 1991–February 9, 1992.
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