The Lion Dance Artist: Itō Shinsui (Japanese, 1898–1972)

ca. 1950

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk

Dimensions

without mounting: 19 7/16 × 22 3/8 in. (49.3 × 56.8 cm)
with mounting: 60 × 29 in. (152.4 × 73.6 cm)
with rollers: 31 5/16 in. (79.6 cm)

Credit Line

The Henry Pearson, M.F.A. 1938, Collection, Gift of Dr. Lawrence Dubin, B.S. 1955, M.D. 1958, and Mrs. Regina Dubin

Accession Number

2002.27.4

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Showa era (1926–89)

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Henry Charles Pearson (1914–2006) Collection, New York; Dr. Lawrence Dubin (1934–2018) and Regina Dubin Collection, New York; gift in 2002 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Sadako Ohki, "Japanese Art at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 41
  • Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 162, 379–80, pl. 145
Object copyright
Not Assigned
Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works)

Subject

dance women

Signed

Signed: Shikuntei Shinsui (Shinsui at Gentlemen [pavilion] by the water); sealed: Shikuntei (Gentlemen Pavilion)

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