Free-Floating Orchids: Study of Orchid Branches Leaves, and Buds Artist: Kim Eung-won (Korean, 1855–1921)

late 19th–early 20th century

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

Dimensions

without mounting: 13 1/4 × 17 1/2 in. (33.7 × 44.5 cm)
with mounting: 44 × 23 in. (111.8 × 58.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert D. Mowry

Accession Number

2024.21.2

Geography

Korea

Culture

Korean

Period

Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) to Colonial period (1910–45)

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Mrs. Hee-Jung Shin Moon, New York, by 1965 [see note 1]; sold to the Kang Collection, New York, by 2013; sold to Robert D. Mowry, Brookline, Mass., March 28, 2013 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2019–24); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2024

Note 1: According to the Kang gallery, Mrs. Moon brought this scroll and several others from her family collection when she immigrated to the U.S. in 1965 to do graduate study. (Kang Collection Invoice, March 28, 2013, copy in curatorial file)
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

hanging scrolls

Marks

two artist seals, as follows:\r\nBelow signature, upper seal: Square, red, intaglio seal reading Kim Ssi 金氏\r\nBelow signature, lower seal: Square, red, relief seal reading Soho 小湖

Signed

artist signature reading Soho 小湖

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