Warbler on Flowering Plum Tree
Original Language TitleKobai ni Uguisu
Artist After
Sakai Hôitsu
(Japanese, 1761 - 1828)
Artist
Unknown
Daten.d.
MediumHanging scroll; ink and colors on silk
DimensionsOverall: 37 × 13 1/4 inches (93.98 × 33.66 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-83/12
On View
Not on viewCollections
ProvenanceWith the Tokyo Art Club, Tokyo, Japan, by March 30, 1929;
Purchased from the Tokyo Art Club by the dealer K. Matsuki, Kamakura, Japan, MArch 30, 1929-1932 [1];
Purchased from Matsuki, through Langdon Warner (1881-1955), by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] Letter from K. Matsuki to Langdon Warner, Nelson-Atkins Advisor, October 31, 1931, and "Kansas City - Itemized Purchases in China and Japan, 1932," no. A-11, Harvard Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, box 15, folder 28, copies in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
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