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The Rejects: MS Paint

In our journey to find artwork for Saltonstall House, we came across many perfect fits and many not so perfect fits. This untitled piece by Keiji Shinohara was considered for many weeks and even brought to be framed, until the more detail oriented Japanese prints became evidently more eye-catching while this piece was often described as "flat." One reason for this may be that the print was actually an attempted copy of Hiroshige’s Miyanokoshi which made the artwork feel somewhat less genuine than the other Japanese original works the gallery owned. The piece, due to its cartoonish simplicity, was unofficially titled MS Paint (Microsoft Paint) during the process by the curatorial team and ultimately felt too simplistic and uninteresting to be placed in the dining room alongside more sophisticated and original artworks.

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