Object Details
- School/Tradition
- Rinpa
- Label
- Freer’s admiration of the simplicity and elegance of paintings by Ogata Korin began in 1887 with his first purchase of Japanese art from the New York art dealer, Takayanagi Tozo—a folding fan with an ink sketch of the head of a crane. Although the fan is no longer considered an authentic example, Freer acquired many works by Krin, as well as by earlier and later artists of the Rinpa school. This painting of
- hollyhocks, purchased from the Paris art dealer Siegfried Bing (1838–1905), repeats a subject that Korin often painted on gold-leafed screens and on hanging scrolls. The leaves of the hollyhocks employ a characteristic Rinpa technique of brushing ink or pigments to create pooled effects, then painting details in gold.
- Provenance
- To 1901
- Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris, to 1901 [1]
- From 1901 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing in 1901 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 250, pg. 56, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Bold and Beautiful: Rinpa in Japanese Art (June 28, 2015 to January 3, 2016)
- Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Ogata Korin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716)
- Date
- late 17th-early 18th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Ink, color, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 122.2 × 48.7 cm (48 1/8 × 19 3/16 in)
- Type
- Painting
