1936.150.125: Kichijoten, after a wall painting in Yakushiji Temple, Nara, Japan
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1936.150.125
- People
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Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)
- Title
- Kichijoten, after a wall painting in Yakushiji Temple, Nara, Japan
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 19th-20th century
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/306822
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor and gouache over graphite on off-white cardboard
- Dimensions
- actual: 54.5 x 35.7 cm (21 7/16 x 14 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: red gouache, l.r.: Joseph / Lindon / Smith
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875
- Accession Year
- 1936
- Object Number
- 1936.150.125
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 151 and repr. in color on p. 151 as fig. 3
Verification Level
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