The Song Courtesans at the Otowa Waterfall, on Scrap-paper Fabric with a Shinnai-bushi Libretto, from the series A Modern Pine Needle Collection

1931, purchased from Jeanne Bural (Paris, France) by Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 7

• Summer Breeze: The Fan in Japanese Prints: Chazen Museum of Art, 7/7/2012–9/9/2012

• Asia
• Prints
• E. B. Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints

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