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Tokyo, Japan

Portfolio TitleCherry Blossom Time in Japan
Artist Lee Friedlander (American, born 1934)
Printer Thomas Palmer (American, born 1957)
Date1979; printed 1986
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 12 3/4 × 8 5/8 inches (32.39 × 21.91 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/2 × 15 inches (52.07 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1393
SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in pencil; Stamped on sheet verso, lower left, in black ink with pencil: "© LEE FRIEDLANDER 1986"
InscribedEditioned on sheet recto, lower left, in pencil: "4/50"
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 4/50
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionBlooming cherry blossom tree shot from below. Blades of grass fill bottom half of frame.Exhibition History

Wanderlust: Eight Contemporary Photographers from the Hallmark Photographic Collection.  The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 26 - May 31, 1987, Evansville Museum of Art and Science, July 26 - September 20, 1987, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL,  October 17 - November 29, 1987, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA, January 8 - March 6, 1988, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., April 8 - June 19, 1988, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, August 14 - September 25, 1988, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, October 23 - December 11, 1988, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, January 8 - February 19, 1989, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, August 20 - October 1, 1989, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, Collett Art Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT, September 23 - October 18, 1991, Danville Museum, Danville, VA, unnumbered.

Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1986;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Lee Friedlander
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