Ohara Koson
Two Egrets in the Rain
ca. 1900-1910
Gallery · Haeckel, Audubon, Redouté, Merian
Japanese painter and woodblock print designer, the finest exponent of the kacho-e genre (pictures of flowers and birds) within the shin-hanga movement. His hushed, precise compositions of herons, crows and sparrows won enormous popularity in the West.