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This Morning's Autumn

This Morning's Autumn

PaintingsJapanese20th century

This Morning's Autumn

1918 (Taishō 7)

Artists

Watanabe Kōkan 渡辺公観Artist

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.

Classification

Paintings

Medium

Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on silk

Culture

Japanese

Period

Taishō era, 1912-1926

Century

20th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

each screen: 172 × 363 cm (67 11/16 × 142 15/16 in.)

Provenance

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.

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