The Plum Garden at Kameido (Kameido Umeyashiki), no. 30 from the series One-hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

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]

• Schlombs, Adele. "Hiroshige: 1797-1858." Koln, Germany: Taschen, 2007. p. 84
• Volk, Alicia. "Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement." Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum and University of Washington Press, 2005. p. 24, no. 1
• Foxwell, Chelsea, and Anne Leonard, "Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints." Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2012. p. 116, no. 95
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ando Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1982. p. 22, cat. no. 30
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 129

• Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/6/2016–8/14/2016
• Color Woodcuts by Hiroshige from the Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/23/1995–10/22/1995
• Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/18/1982–5/23/1982

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• E. B. Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints

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