Seated Man Watching a Flight of Plovers; Illustration of a Verse by Minotomo no Kanemasa, Sheet 39b from the series Pictures for the One-hundred Poems

Before 1923, collection of Berlin (Germany); 1 February 1923, purchased from Walpole Galleries (New York, NY – lot 131) by Anna Van Vleck; 1923 gifted by Anna Van Vleck to her brother, 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. 270

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

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