Plum Tree

Object Details

• Artist

  Sakai Hoitsu 酒井抱一 (1761-1828)

• Provenance

  Likely early 1950s-2008

  Victor (1919-2013) and Takako (1923-2015) Hauge, reportedly purchased in Japan [1]

  From 2008

  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Victor and Takako Hauge [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See object file for January 2008 curatorial note, “Acquired by the owners in Japan in the early 1950s.” See also Frank Feltens, “Plum Tree” in “Kokka,” no. 1477 (November 2018): 32-36; pl. 4. Feltens notes that, “The painting has not previously been published.”

  Additionally, see object file for copy of Freer Gallery of Art Incoming Receipt, dated February 14, 2005, for objects received at the Freer from Victor and Takako Hauge. The object was assigned Freer vault no. V20.2005a-e and described as “Hanging scroll; “Prunus Branch,” Sakai Hoitsu, 1761-1828.” In 2020 the object was internally transferred from the Freer Study Collection to the Museum’s Freer Gallery of Art collection.

  Victor (1919-2013) and Takako (1923-2015) Hauge were collectors of art, antiquities, and crafts. Victor, together with his brother Osborne "Bud" Hauge (1914–2004) and Bud’s wife Gratia Hauge (1907-2000), and Takako formed significant collections of objects from Southeast Asia and Iran, as well as Islamic art. Victor and Bud were in the U.S. Foreign Service and it was through these travels that the two couples began collecting. Victor and Takako co-authored the catalog "Folk Traditions in Japanese Art," and both couples donated part of their collections to the National Museum of Asian Art.

  [2] See object file for copy of Freer Gallery of Art Deed of Gift signed by Victor L. Hauge October 31, 2008, and counter-signed by the Director November 20, 2008. This object is part of the Museum’s Freer Gallery of Art collection.

  Research updated November 20, 2024

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  A Journey of Taste: Freer and Japanese Scroll Mounting (April 15, 2023 to March 3, 2024)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Victor and Takako Hauge

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Painting

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• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Late Edo period (1716 - 1868), Art, Hauge collection, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Plum tree, Kakemono

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings