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Hawks in a Ravine


Keikan yûhi zu
渓間雄飛図
Kano Hôgai (Japanese, 1828–1888)
Japanese
Meiji era
about 1885–86 (Meiji 19)

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions Image: 93.2 x 165.7 cm (36 11/16 x 65 1/4 in.)
Overall (including mounting): 248 x 206.5 cm (97 5/8 x 81 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.8740
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 206; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. V (Meiji, Taishô, Shôwa), no. 2; Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), fig. 8, photo p. 20
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.