The Young Calligrapher Gyokkashi Shima Eimo Giving a Reading Lesson

Before 1919, collection of Judson D. Metzgar (Moline, IL); 15 May 1919, purchased through Lucy F. Brown (New York, NY) from Metzgar Sale at the American Art Galleries (New York, NY) 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. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 236

• Paper Women: The Female in Japanese prints: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 7/23/1994–9/18/1994

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

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