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Woman Standing Beside the Sumida River

Woman Standing Beside the Sumida River

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Artist
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(Japanese, 1798 - 1861)
Title
Woman Standing Beside the Sumida River
Date
ca. 1830
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
212 x 183 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.2648
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

Collection of 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 (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 142, no. 122
  • 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. 260

  • Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints, The: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/7/1990–11/25/1990
  • Japanese Woodblock Prints: Reality and Reflection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 8/24/1985–10/13/1985

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