Pulling a Kite

Artist Unknown

Artist After Xu Wei (Chinese, 1521 - 1593)

Date19th-20th century

MediumHandscroll; ink on paper

DimensionsOverall: 12 7/8 × 55 1/2 inches (32.69 × 140.97 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number46-53

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Provenance

With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by February 1946 [1];

Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946 [2].

NOTES:

[1] 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.

[2] 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.

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