Matsushima no Tsukasa Preparing for Suicide, from the series Lives of Famous Women of the Past and Present

1920, purchased from Ito (Chicago, IL) by 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]

• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 258

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

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