Shizuka of the Tamaya House, from the series A Complete Set of the Great Beauties of the Present Day

1794

Kitagawa Utamaro

Japanese, 1754 - 1806

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Sheet: 15 x 9 3/4 in. (38.1 x 24.8 cm)

Gift of Mary and Allan Kollar, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

2017.23.4

Provenance: Collection of Mary and Allan Kollar, Seattle, Washington; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2017

Photo: Scott Leen

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints, Apr. 1 - July 4, 2010. Text by Catherine Roche. Cat. no. 19, reproduced p. 42.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Renegade Edo: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec, July 21 - Dec. 3, 2023. Text by Xiaojin Wu. No cat. no., pp. 75, 101, reproduced pl. 39.

Published ReferencesJohns, Barbara. Signs of Home: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita, in association with Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2011; p. 86, reproduced fig. 65 [no object number upon publication].

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