Ballad: Dream Artist: Kan Makiko (Japanese, born 1933)

1998

Asian Art

Not on view
Medium

Hanging scroll, ink on paper and on silk mounting, with pseudo ivory rollers

Dimensions

without mounting: 13 5/8 × 17 3/16 in. (34.608 × 43.656 cm)
with mounting: 50 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (128.27 × 59.69 cm)
with rollers: 25 3/4 in. (65.405 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Rubin-Ladd Foundation under the bequest of Ester R. Portnow

Accession Number

2009.71.4a-b

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Heisei era (1989–2019)

Classification

Calligraphy

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Joan B. Mirviss, Japanese Fine Art, NY; purchased by The Rubin-Ladd Foundation, Georgetown, Conn. and New York; gift in 2009 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2009," in "State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 152–53, ill
  • Ryuin, sumi, iro: Kan Makiko ten, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Aimekkusu Fain Ato, 1999), 58–59, no. 38
  • Sadako Ohki, "Japanese Calligraphy at Yale: From Sutra to the Avant-Garde," Arts of Asia (March–April 2018), 96, fig. 15
Object copyright
Not Assigned
Additional information

Object/Work type

calligraphy, hanging scrolls

Marks

Sealed: "Ma"

Inscriptions

From top right to vertically down on the mounting, down to the left within the mounting, and then to the white paper proper from the thick inked character for "dream" to the left edge: "Yume yo yume yo afutona miseso, yume wa samuruni".

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