Evening View of Shinjuku (Shinjuku yakei), from the series Recollections of Tokyo (Tokyo kaiko zue)

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Evening View of Shinjuku (Shinjuku yakei), from the series Recollections of Tokyo (Tokyo kaiko zue)

東京回顧図絵　「新宿夜景」　新宿の夜

Maekawa Senpan (Japanese, 1888–1960)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1945 (Shôwa 20), December

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 20.2 x 27.9 cm (7 15/16 x 11 in.)

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

Accession Number65.1091

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, #148o; Smith, Japanese Prints During the Allied Occupation (2002), #46

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 Han (in block)

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)