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- Another British artist, Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956) came to visit her sister in Japan in 1915 and would stay for nine years, travelling and making watercolours. In 1919 Watanabe saw the potential of converting her paint�ings into prints and would eventually turn more than sixty of her water�colours into woodblock prints. Her prints had rich texture and colour, and an incredible sense of depth. The subjects Keith choose to represent were mainly architectural scenes or genre scenes from Korea and China and occasionally the Philippines.
A British artist, who might be very loosely placed in the shin hanga vein, was Katharine Jowett, of whom little is known. She lived in Beijing and produced Chinese scenes with linoleum cuts using oil colours. Her prints show interesting soft blurry images within a dark heavy border.
The French artist, Paul Jacoulet (1902-1960), whose father was a lan�guage tutor in Japan, spent much of his life in Japan. He produced some amazing portrait prints of Asians, especially beautifully clothed people from China, Korea, Japan and the South Pacific. Jacoulet hired one of Japan's finest carvers, Kentaro Maeda, to carve the blocks for his paintings. His prints, with a style deriving from Art Deco, made daring use of bright, bold colours and paid immaculate attention to surface detail. He produced a huge number of prints which eventually sold very well to the Occupation Forces after 1945.
Of the American artists using the Japanese woodblock technique, the most famous were Helen Hyde (1868-1919) and Bertha Lum (1879-1954). Hyde, a San Francisco artist, lived and worked in Asia, mainly Japan, for nearly fifteen years. She made use of the skilled Japanese block carvers and printers to produce delicate genre pictures of Japan. Lum, a mid-Westerner, came to Japan on her honeymoon. She learned how to use carving tools and would produce a few of her own prints. In 1911 she moved to Tokyo and began to make use of the skilled carvers and printers in Japan. Like Hyde, she depicted wonderful genre scenes with subtle colours as well as scenes of fantasy usually with thick outlines.
Another American, Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge (1889-1975), who travelled to Japan in 1924 and 1925, collaborated with Watanabe to produce six interesting woodblock prints of Beijing scenes.
Another artist working in the Japanese shin hanga era was Pieter Irwin Brown (1903-?) of Dutch-Irish parentage, who worked in Japan around 1936. He produced images of China with dark colours.
One Japanese shin hanga artist, who fits in with the foreigner section of shin hanga is Urushibara Mokuchu (1888-1953), who spent 30 years in London and Paris using traditional Japanese woodblock techniques to pub-
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