Descending Geese on the Koto, from the series Eight Views of the Parlor

By 1940, sold by Ernest Le Veel (Paris, France) to Hester Van Vleck (Madison, WI) as a gift to her husband, Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 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. "Artscene." Vol. 14, No. 4, Summer 1998. p. 6
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 10, No. 3, June /July/ August 1994. p. 2

• Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/6/2016–8/14/2016
• Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/4/2004–11/7/2004
• Japanese Woodblock Prints: Reality and Reflection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 8/24/1985–10/13/1985

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

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