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Title: Monkeys in snow pine trees
Alternative Title: 雪中群猿図屏風
Creator: Kishi, Renzan, 1805-1859
Date Created and/or Issued: 1853
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 "癸丑孟冬連山岸徳" (early winter of 1853) with two seals "岸徳之印" and "士進氏" at lower right corner.
Medium: ink and colors on paper
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.
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; "Feats and Tales: Images of Animals in Japanese Art" curated by Adam Zollinger, Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, May 1-June 30, 2001.
Biography/History: Artist also known as 岸連山
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 six-fold folding screen; 176 x 357 cm
Form/Genre: folding screens
Late Edo
Kishi School
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb9v19p7ck
ucm_li_CL1984_002
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Monkeys
Snow
Pine

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