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Title: Eagle threatening monkeys
Alternative Title: 巨鷲一攫図
Creator: Kanō, Hōgai, 1828-1888
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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: Signed "芳崖" with seal at lower right corner. No inscriptions.
Medium: ink and light colors on paper
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 狩野芳崖
Acquisition: Gift in memory of Gail Liebes, a woman with a passion for art and a love of Japan, from her husband John, and her children Alison and Christopher.
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, 51 x 91 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo to Meiji
Kano School
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb9x0nc040
ucm_li_2001_016
Subject: Birds
Trees
landscapes (representations)
Eagles
Monkeys

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