Four Prints, "Spring", "Summer," "Fall" and "Winter"

Spitbite and softground etching, drypoint, chine colle with gampi paper on Arches white.

22" wd. x 30" ht.

Shoichi Ida, who has lived, worked and exhibited internationally throughout his career, has chosen to remain in the traditional Japanese city of Kyoto where he was born in 1941.  He earned a postgraduate degree from the Oil Painting Department of Kyoto Municipal University of Art in 1965. He received a grant in 1968 from the French government to live and work in Paris and also lived briefly in New York and in San Francisco.

In 1990 the Japanese artist Shoichi Ida came to the Art Academy of Cincinnati as a visiting artist and in collaboration with Clay Street Press created suite of prints called Four Seasons.