Waiting for the Ferry in the Chill of Winter
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Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, 1948.
University of Oklahoma, Museum of Art, Norman. January-March 1952.
Arts of China, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, October 30-December 4, 1955.
Oriental art exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis, January 23-March 4, 1966.
Album Leaves, China Institute in America, New York, March 25-May 30, 1970.
Yuan Dynasty Painting, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 21-October 31, 1976.
Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Nelson-Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, November 7, 1980 – January 4, 1981; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 7 – April 5, 1981; The Asia Society, December 3, 1981 – February 28, 1982; Tokyo National Museum, October 4 – November 17, 1982, no. 100.
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 Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section 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.
Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 60.
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), 124-125, no. 100.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 320.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 350, fig. 207.
