A Song Dance, from the series Eighteen Pictures for the Ladder of Ancient Words

Until 1907, collection of Hamilton E. Field; 1907, purchased from Field Sale at the American Art Galleries (New York, NY) by Mrs. J. Harriot Goodell (New Haven, CT); 1916, purchased by 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." Spring 1998. p. 10
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 15, No. 3, Spring 1999. p. 10
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 206

• Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/6/2016–8/14/2016

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

The Chazen Museum of Art welcomes comments or inquiries about works in our collection. Please allow two–three weeks for a response. Chazen staff is not able to provide valuations or authentications and such inquiries cannot be answered.