Fuchū with a Distant View of the Abe River, no. 20 from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Gyōsho Tōkaidō)

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]

• Addiss, Stephen, Ed. "Japanese Ghosts & Demons: Art of the Supernatural." New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1985. p. 110, no. 66
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 45

• Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernatural: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 6/13/1985–9/14/1986

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

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