True Picture of Americans

Original Language Title正写亜墨利加人

Artist Utagawa Yoshikazu (Japanese)

Dateca. 1861

MediumWoodblock print; ink and color on paper

DimensionsImage: 13 3/4 × 9 3/8 inches (34.93 × 23.81 cm)
Framed: 22 3/8 × 17 7/8 × 1 inches (56.83 × 45.4 × 2.54 cm)

Credit LineGift of Catherine Beth Lippert in memory of her husband Charles B. Cash, Jr

Object number2023.24.3

SignedArtist's siganture: Utagawa Yoshikazu 歌川芳員 (written as 一川芳員)

InscribedTitle in cartouche: Seisha Amerika jin 正写亜墨利加人[True Picture of Americans]

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Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Japanese

DescriptionPolychrome woodblock print of Yokohama-e (Yokohama pictures or Yokohama prints) type depicting American man and woman. The woman wears a light pinkish orange shirt and blue skirt, holding a parasol. The man wears a black jacket and white pants while holding a cigarette. The background color transitions from light blue to white to slightly deeper blue, divided softly by the bokashi technique. The inscription in the cartouche is the title: Seisha Amerika jin 正写亜墨利加人[True Picture of Americans]. The publisher's seal reads Sanoki 佐野喜.Provenance

Provenance

With Paul LeRoy Grigaut (American, born French, 1905–1969), Ann Arbor, MI, until March 4, 1969

Purchased from the estate of Paul LeRoy Grigaut, Ann Arbor, MI, by Catherine Lippert (American), Ann Arbor, MI, around 1971

Gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, by Catherine Lippert, North Kansas City, MO, 2023

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