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Title: Flute Player before a Garden Gate
Creator: Kamisaka, Sekka, 1866-1942, Japanese
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1920 and 1940]
Publication Information: Exhibited: "Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master--Pioneer of Modern Design" organized by The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 8/20/03 to 10/13/03, Sakura City Museum of Art 11/8/03 to 12/21/03, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1/29/04 to 4/25/04, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama 5/23/04 to 8/1/04.
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: Medium: Ink, gold and colors on silk
Annotations/Markings: Signed "雪佳" (Sekka) at left edge followed by seal. No inscriptions.
Acquisition: On long-term loan to the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture.
Citation/Reference: Reproduced in Donald A. Wood and Yuko Ikeda, eds. "Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master--Pioneer of Modern Design" Kyoto and Birmingham: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2003. pl. 187.
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master--Pioneer of Modern Design" organized by The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 8/20/03 to 10/13/03, Sakura City Museum of Art 11/8/03 to 12/21/03, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1/29/04 to 4/25/04, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama 5/23/04 to 8/1/04.
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 fan painting; 19 x 57 cm.
Form/Genre: fan paintings
scroll paintings
Taisho to Showa
Sotatsu-Korin School
Identifier: ark:/86071/d2013r
CL1992.007
92-10-5
Subject: fans (costume accessories)
figures (representations)
musicians
flutists
flute
garden structures
gates
fences
flowers (plants)

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