Gallery Location
Not currently on view
- Artist/Maker
- Torii Kotondo
(Japanese, 1900 - 1976) - Title
- Combing the Hair, Kamisuki
- Date
- 1933
- Material & Process
- Color woodcut
- Dimensions
- 409 x 357 mm Overall
- Credit
- Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
- Inventory No.
- 1980.2603
- Classification
- Prints
- Location
- Japan
Related
22 November 1938, sold by John McLaughlin (Boston, MA) 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]
- Stevens, Andrew. "Color Woodcut International: Japan, Britain, and America In the Early Twentieth Century." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2006. p. 105, no. 47
- Merritt, Helen and Nanako Yamada. "Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975." University of Hawaii Press, 1992. p. 155
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 250
- Color Woodcut International: Japan, Britain, and America in the Early 20th Century: Chazen Museum of Art, 12/9/2006–2/25/2007
- Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints, The: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/7/1990–11/25/1990
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