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Asian Art
Artist: Kawase Hasui, Japanese, 1883–1957
Portrait of a Yangban
1935
Shin hanga; polychrome woodblock print
sheet: 16 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (42.55 × 30.16 cm)
image: 16 × 11 1/8 in. (40.64 × 28.26 cm)
image: 16 × 11 1/8 in. (40.64 × 28.26 cm)
Gift of Charles T. Clark
2016.67.1
Geography:
Japan
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Japanese
Period:
Showa era (1926–89)
Classification:
Works on Paper - Prints
Provenance:
James Tobin Collection, Portland, OR; Ronin Gallery, New York; purchased by Charles T. Clark, Woodbridge, Conn., 1980s; given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2016
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2016.pdf (accessed December 1, 2016).
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
