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Title: Monkey hanging from a tree
Alternative Title: 猿図
Creator: Maruyama, Ōkyo, 1733-1795
Date Created and/or Issued: 1770
Publication Information: Japan
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
Collection: Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collection
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Annotations/Markings: Dated and signed "明和庚寅季春應挙" with two seals at center of left edge.
Medium: ink and light colors on silk
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center," curated by Kobayashi Tadashi, organized by The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Oita Art Museum, The Museum of Art, Ehime, and Chiba City Museum of Art, April 16, 2002-February 2, 2003.
citation: Listed and reproduced in Kobayashi Tadashi and Samuel C. Morse, eds., Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2002).
Biography/History: Artist also known as 円山応挙
Acquisition: Clark Family Collection; on long-term loan to the Lee Institute.
Funding: Digitization funded by an Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Leadership Grant (LG 30-02-0260-02) awarded to the University of California, Merced Library.
Type: image
Format: 1 hanging scroll, 87 x 31 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Middle Edo
Maruyama School
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb8779p58t
ucm_li_CL2000_001
Subject: Monkeys

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