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Birds and Pine Tree
Birds and Pine Tree

Birds and Pine Tree

DateFirst half 16th century
Maker Kano Motonobu Japanese, 1476 - 1559
Object number49.214
Exhibition HistorySan Francisco Museum of Art, "Art in Asia & the West," 1957 San Francisco, M. H. de Young Mem. Museum, "Treasures of Japan," 1960 Seattle Art Museum, "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum," 1960Published ReferencesLee, Sherman E. "Japanese Art at Seattle," in Oriental Art, Winter 1949-50, p. 96; fig. 15 p. 97 "Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 96 (b&w) Lee, Sherman E. "Japanese Monochrome Painting at Seattle," in Artibus Asiae, vol. 14, nos. 1, 2, 1951, pp. 60-61 Fuller, 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. 97 Mayuyama Junkichi, "Japanese Art in the West," 1966, #187
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions28 3/4 x 49 3/4 in. (73 x 126.3 cm) Overall h.: 195.58 cm Overall w.: 144.145 cm
MediumInk on paper
Fan:  Bird on a Plum Branch
Kano Motonobu School
16th century
Object number: 62.171
Photo: Spike Mafford
Kano Shoyei
16th century
Object number: 34.113
Photo: Spike Mafford
Kano Motonobu
ca. 1550
Object number: 92.47.321
Fan:  Three Geese in Snow
Kano Motonobu School
16th century
Object number: 60.89
Fan:  Two Mandarin Ducks
Kano Motonobu School
16th century
Object number: 60.90
Triptych:  Landscape with Two Cranes
Kano Motonobu
Object number: 58.116
Photo: Beth Mann
Kano Tsunenobu
late 17th-early 18th century
Object number: 34.111
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Chinese
1796-1820
Object number: 33.115
Photo: Paul Macapia
Kano Tsunenobu
early 18th century
Object number: 71.4.1
Scenes of Farming
Kano Tsunenobu
early 18th century
Object number: 71.4.2
Two Sennin
Kano Eitoku
late 16th-early 17th century
Object number: 57.60.1
Chokoro on horseback
Kano Eitoku
16th-17th century
Object number: 57.60.2