Half-length Portrait of Courtesan with Fan, from the series Scenes from Daily Life in Edo with Costumes of Purple

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 1980, passed through inheritance to John’s wife, Abigail P. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 1984, bequeathed 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. 10

• Echoing Overseas: Asian Artistic Exchange: Chazen Museum of Art, 8/8/2022–11/28/2022

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

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