Untitled Picture Album of Twenty-five Watercolor Paintings by Nishiyama Hōen
An untitled album of twenty-five watercolour paintings by the Japanese artist Nishiyama Hōen, who died in 1867, held as a record of his work in the public-domain collection. The three pictures show ink-wash flower and leaf studies and a misty landscape with trees and distant boats. A designer could take from them the economy of grey wash on pale paper, with a few soft tonal shapes left to suggest form.
