Scenic Views of Rivers and Mountains in the Style of Huang Gongwang

Luo Zhenyu (1866-1940) [1];

Yamamoto Teijirō (1870-1937), by 1937 [2];

With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by February 1946 [3];

Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946 [4].

NOTES:

[1] Luo Zhenyu was a scholar of languages and inscriptions, as well as an avid collector. See Accession documentation, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

[2] Yamamoto Teijirō was a Japanese politician, businessman and collector, whose remaining collection later made up the core of the Chokaido Museum in Japan. See Accession documentation, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

[3] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.

[4] Acquisition documents in the Nelson-Atkins files record that Curator of Asian Art Laurence Sickman purchased this object when he was stationed in Tokyo while serving with the U.S. Army’s Civil, Information & Education section in Asia (commonly known as the Monuments Men and Women) after World War II. See "Objects Acquired for the Museum by Laurence Sickman," Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Records, series 9, box 11, folder Laurence Sickman.