Birds and Pine Tree

First half 16th century

Kano Motonobu

Japanese, 1476 - 1559

Ink on paper

28 3/4 x 49 3/4 in. (73 x 126.3 cm)

Overall h.: 195.58 cm

Overall w.: 144.145 cm

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

49.214

Not currently on view

Resources

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," 1960

Published 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

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