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Moso Approaching a Snowy Bamboo Grove, from the series A Mirror for Children of Twenty-four Examples of Filial Devotion

Moso Approaching a Snowy Bamboo Grove, from the series A Mirror for Children of Twenty-four Examples of Filial Devotion

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Artist
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(Japanese, 1798 - 1861)
Title
Moso Approaching a Snowy Bamboo Grove, from the series A Mirror for Children of Twenty-four Examples of Filial Devotion
Date
ca. 1840
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
218 x 349 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.2655
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

1930, purchased from Aoyama (Paris, France) 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. 132, no. 108
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 261

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