Wild Goose on a Bank of Reeds
Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, 1948.
Chinese Paintings of Birds and Flowers, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. October 30-December 14, 1951.
Arts of China, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT. October 30-December 4, 1955.
Images of geese are popular in Chinese art, as seen in this realistically painted picture of a goose resting on a river bank. Trustworthy geese bring seasonal messages from the north to the south. Geese represent good faith and orderliness due to their regular migrations and organized flying formations.
With Yamanaka & Co., New York, no. YK 5117s, by August 1932-1933 [1];
Purchased from Yamanaka & Co., through Langdon Warner (1881-1955), by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] List of offered objects included in a letter from K. Tanaka, Yamanaka & Co. to Langdon Warner, Nelson-Atkins advisor, August 23, 1932, Harvard University, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, box 13, folder 1, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
Benjamin Rowland, Masterpieces of Chinese Bird and Flower Painting, Fogg Art museum, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1951),pl. IIIa, no.5.
Benjamin Rowland, “Oriental Gardens”, Art News, (Nov. 1951): 44, illus.
Art of China, (Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut: 1955), no. 121.
Wai-Kam Ho, et al., Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. (The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, c1980), 59, no. 45.
