Factories in Honjo (Honjo kôjô chitai), from the series Recollections of Tokyo (Tokyo kaiko zue)

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Factories in Honjo (Honjo kôjô chitai), from the series Recollections of Tokyo (Tokyo kaiko zue)

東京回顧図絵　本所工場地帯

Maekawa Senpan (Japanese, 1888–1960)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1945 (Shôwa 20), December

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 20 x 26.8 cm (7 7/8 x 10 9/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. through Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, Jr.

Accession Number65.1087

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Graybill et al, The Artist's Touch, the Craftsman's Hand (Portland Art Museum cat., 2011), p. 303, #148n; Smith, Japanese Prints During the Allied Occupation (2002), #45

DescriptionFrom a portfolio of 15 works by 9 artists, with titles of individual works on an accompanying sheet (not in MFA).
MFA prints from the portfolio (complete): 59.838, 60.38, 65.1060, 65.1067, 65.1068, 65.1083, 65.1084, 65.1085, 65.1087, 65.1088, 65.1089, 65.1091, 65.1097, 65.1098, 65.1104

Signed Maekawa Senpan (in block)
前川千帆

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)