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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1916.689
People
Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)
Title
Yomei No Mon Nikko, Japan
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Yomei Gate, Nikko, Japan
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306041

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, white gouache and chalk over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
74.3 x 55.2 cm (29 1/4 x 21 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: red pencil, l.l.: JOSEPH / LINDON / SMITH

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1916.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1916
Object Number
1916.689
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ellen P. Conant, "Satisfactory like a Dream: Joseph Lindon Smith, a Boston Artist in Japan, 1901", Inventing Asia: American Perspectives around 1900, ed. Noriko Murai and Alan Chong, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2014), 147-165, p. 155 and repr. in color p. 155 as fig. 7

Verification Level

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