What do you get when you combine Japanese Aesthetic art with the Arts and Crafts Movement…an incredible amalgam of the simple, the subtle, and the unobtrusive. Contrasting elements of elegant to rough and spontaneous to restrained, this signed but unknown artist borrowed a page, if not an entire chapter, from The Arthur Wesley Dow(1857-1922) book on the balance of light and dark in order to explain the underlying philosophy of oriental art to western art lovers. Ink and watercolor on heavy brown paper “Hillside Study” “

x26,possibly original frame

$650.