New Year’s Calligraphy 新年試筆書

Object Details

• Artist

  Tomioka Tessai 富岡鉄斎 (1836-1924)

• Provenance

  To 2008

  Shibunkaku, Kyoto [1]

  From 2008 to 2018

  Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, WA, purchased from Shibunkaku on March 1, 2008 [2]

  From 2018

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, Washington [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Per information provided by the Cowles. See Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection 2018 Gift List for Freer/Sackler, object file, Collections Management.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] See Deed of Gift, object file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Cowles Collection (August 13, 2022 to January 28, 2024)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Cheney Cowles

  Mary Cowles

  Shibunkaku 思文閣

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles

• Type

  Calligraphy

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1920s

• Name

  Cowles, Mary, Shibunkaku, Cowles, Cheney

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  New year, Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Art, Japanese Art, Taisho era (1912 - 1926)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Calligraphy (visual works)