Mountain of immortals 仙山

Object Details

• Artist

  Ogawa Usen 小川芋銭 (1868-1938)

• Provenance

  ?-2017

  Kashima Arts, Kyoto, Japan, method of acquisition unknown [1]

  From 2017

  Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle WA, purchased from Kashima Arts, Kyoto, Japan, in Japan [2]

  Notes :

  [1] Kashima Arts is a dealer, operating since 1988 and mainly working with Japanese painting and hanging scrolls from the Edo period to the present day in Kyoto, Japan.

  [2] The receipt from Kashima Arts, Kyoto, Japan is dated November 21, 2017, copy in object file. Mary and Cheney Cowles made the purchase on January 2, 2018, according to their recollection.

  Research Completed May 10, 2024

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Kashima Arts 加島美術

  Cheney Cowles

  Mary Cowles

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1930s, 1880s

• Name

  Cowles, Mary, Kashima Arts, Cowles, Cheney

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Mountains, Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Japanese Art, Taisho era (1912 - 1926), Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings