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Flowers of a Hundred Worlds (Momoyogusa): Chrysanthemum Boy (Kikujidō)

1909

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Kamisaka Sekka 神坂 雪佳

(Japanese, 1866–1942)

Japan, Meiji period

(1868-1912)

Ink and color on paper

John L. Severance Fund 1989.85.20

Location

not on view

Description

Kamisaka Sekka made preparatory drawings for his Flowers of a Hundred Worlds series on tracing paper with ink and color. The freehand sketches are much looser than the finished, printed compositions.

Provenance
?–1989
(Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1989–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history

Brimingham Musuem of Art, Alabama (5/23/2004 - 8/1/2004): "Kamisakka Sekka: Rimap Master - Pionerr of Modern Design," exh. cat. no. 252-B2, p. 263.

Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).

Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021).

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