Fan Painting: Blue Iris

1615-1868

Sakai Hoitsu

Japanese, 1761-1828

Rimpa School

Japanese

Color and gold on paper

Overall: 14 1/2 x 25 1/8 in. (36.8 x 63.8cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

59.132

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryNew Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans Museum of Art, Japanese Fan Paintings from Western Collections, May 25, 1985 - May 18, 1986

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Years of Beauty: Japanese Art in Seattle, July 16, 2001 - November 17, 2002

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Going For Gold, November 3, 2012 - December 8, 2013

Published ReferencesFuller, Richard E. "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 172

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