Morning Glories, from the series Selected Pictures by Kôshisei (Kôshisei gasen), also called 36 Series

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Morning Glories, from the series Selected Pictures by Kôshisei (Kôshisei gasen), also called 36 Series

篁子生画選　朝顔

Tsuchiya Rakuzan (Rakusan) (Japanese, 1896–1976)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1933–35 (Shôwa 8–10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.3 x 38.5 cm (9 15/16 x 15 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.

Accession Number46.410

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Rakusan.net, Gallery, 36 Series, no. 107

DescriptionFrom a series of 36 designs, some of them similar to the black-and-white designs in the Fan Series. The series title is embossed on an undersheet to which the print itself is attached.

Signed Rakuzan Kôshisei (in block)
楽山篁子生

Marks Artist's seals

ProvenanceBy 1946, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA; 1946, gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession date: May 9, 1946)