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Birds (Tori)


「とり」
Ono Tadashige (Japanese, 1909–1990)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1961 (Shôwa 36)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 38.2 x 50.1 cm (15 1/16 x 19 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. through Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number65.1142
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionEdition: 2/5.
Title, date (first made in 1960, this impression printed in 1961), and bilingual signature on a sheet of paper attached to the back of the print.
Signed T. Ono (in romanization, in red ink at lower right); Ono Tadashige (on backing sheet)
ProvenanceBy 1965, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA: 1965, by inheritance to his wife, Barbara Birkhoff Paine (b. 1909 - d. 1995), Cambridge, MA; 1965, gift of Mrs. Paine to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 1965)