Ducks Swimming Beneath Snow-laden Plum Trees
Artist
Unknown
Artist After
Maruyama Okyo
(Japanese, 1733 - 1795)
MediumHanging scroll; ink and color on silk
DimensionsOverall: 45 3/8 × 24 7/8 inches (115.25 × 63.18 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.
Object number81-27/36
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DescriptionPair of male and female ducks swim in the foreground, while a third duck dives for fish; a snow-covered branch of plum protrudes from the right border; ripples around ducks painted in subtly gradated pale blue, with the ducks meticulously drawn in ink and earth-tone colors.ProvenanceWith Yabumoto Bijutsuten 藪本美術店 (Yabumoto Art Shop), Tokyo, by May 7, 1968;
Purchased from Yabumoto Bijutsuten by Karen Dean Bunting (1912-1981), Shawnee Mission, KS, May 7, 1968-1981 [1];
Her bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.
NOTES:
[1] Yabumoto Bijutsuten’s receipt is in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. Yabumoto Sōshirō 藪本宗四郎 was the owner of Yabumoto Bijutsuten, which was located at 4-8-3 Roppongi, Minato-ko, Tokyo.
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