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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.150.125
People
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
  • Signed: red gouache, l.r.: Joseph / Lindon / Smith

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
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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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