2017.80.1: This Morning's Autumn (right)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2017.80.1
- People
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Watanabe Kōkan 渡辺公観 (1877 - 1938)
- Title
- This Morning's Autumn (right)
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 今朝の秋 Kesa no aki
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting, screen
- Date
- 1918 (Taishō 7)
- Period
- Taishō era, 1912-1926
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/358129
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Right screen of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on silk
- Technique
- Painted
- Dimensions
- each screen: 172 × 363 cm (67 11/16 × 142 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Private Collection, Japan, (1918-2016), sold. [Art market, Kyoto, (2016-2017)], sold; to [Erik Thomsen Gallery, New York, 2017)], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
- Accession Year
- 2017
- Object Number
- 2017.80.1
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Pair of six-panel folding screens painted by Nihonga painter Watanabe Kōkan (1877-1938) depicting a woodswoman (Oharame) tying her headscarf in front of a mill as she prepares for work on an early autumn morning. Exhibited at the 1918 Bunten exhibition.
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