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River Landscape with Fireflies

Artist Shiokawa Bunrin (Japanese, 1808 - 1877)
Date1874
MediumSix-fold screen; ink with slight color and gold paint on paper
DimensionsOverall: 68 × 148 1/2 inches (172.72 × 377.19 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number74-12/1
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DescriptionOne of a pair of six-fold screensExhibition History

Birds, Beasts, Blossoms and Bugs: the nature of Japan, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 30- May. 23, 1976, no. 77.

Art of Japanese Folding Screen, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, Aug, 16- Nov. 29, 1987.

Nihonga: A Century of Modern Japanese Style Paintings, 1868-1968, The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 2-December 31, 1995.
Provenance

With Mr. Clayton L. Miller, by 1974;

Purchased from Mr. Clayton L. Miller by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1974.
Published References

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 369 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 401, fig.76 (repro.).

H.P. Stern, Birds, Beasts, Blossoms and Bugs: the nature of Japan, exh. cat. (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1976), 148-151, no.77, (repro.).

Spencer Museum of Art, Art of the Japanese Folding Screen, exh. cat. (Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, 1987)

Ellen P. Conant, Nihonga: Transcending the past: Japanese-style painting, 1868-1968, exh. cat. (New York: Saint Louis Art Museum, 1995.)
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