Traveling in the Snow-Covered Mountain 雪山行旅図

Object Details

• Artist

  Kosugi Misei 小杉未醒 (1881-1964)

• Provenance

  To 2016

  Kashima Arts, Tokyo [1]

  From 2016 to 2018

  Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, WA, purchased from Kashima Arts on June 1, 2016 [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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Cheney Cowles

  Mary Cowles

  Kashima Arts 加島美術

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

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

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1920s, 1910s

• Name

  Cowles, Mary, Kashima Arts, Cowles, Cheney

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Mountains, Description and travel, Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Art, Snow, Japanese Art, Taisho era (1912 - 1926)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings