Gallery Location
Not currently on view
- Artist/Maker
- Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858) - Title
- Surugacho, no. 8 from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Date
- 9/1856
- Material & Process
- Color woodcut
- Dimensions
- 339 x 220 mm Overall
- Credit
- Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
- Inventory No.
- 1980.1586
- Classification
- Prints
- Location
- Japan
Related
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 (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Dahlin, Kenneth. "The Japanese Print as a Lens to Understanding Wright's Organic Space: The Miegakure Effect." Andon, Journal for the Society of Japanese Art, Autumn 2021 (2021): 31-45. pp. 40, 44, fig. 13
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ando Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1982. p. 14, cat. no. 8
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 126
- Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/18/1982–5/23/1982
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