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Chrysanthemums

Artist Kitagawa Sōsetsu (Japanese, active 1650 - 1699)
DateEdo period (1615-1868)
MediumHanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper
DimensionsImage: 44 5/8 x 17 1/4 inches (113.36 x 43.82 cm)
Mount: 78 x 22 inches (198.12 x 55.88 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.
Object number68-49/1
On View
Not on view
Collections
Provenance

With Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr., by December 13th ,1968;

Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1968.
Published References

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), 108 (repro.).

Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 276, no. 6 (repro.).

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), 364 (repro.).

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), 391, no.39 (repro.).   

"Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1968." Archives of Asian Art, Vol. XXIII(1969): 69, no.36 (repro).
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