Shimomura Kanzan - White Fox, about 1913

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(Wakayama, 1873 - 1930, Yokohama)

Object details

Accession number

P3n20

Primary Creator

Shimomura Kanzan (Wakayama, 1873 - 1930, Yokohama)

Full title

White Fox

Creation Date

about 1913

Object Case

Okakura Case

Provenance


Gift from the Japanese scholar Okakura Yoshisaburo (1868-1936) to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 5 February 1914, shortly after the death of his brother the Japanese art historian and philosopher Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913).

Dimensions

29 x 16 cm (11 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

Display Media

Watercolor on paper

Web Commentary

Shimomura Kanzan was an important modern painter who was colleagues in Japan with Okakura Kakuzō (1862-1913). Okakura was a close friend of Isabella Stewart Gardner and wrote an opera libretto titled, “The White Fox,” which he dedicated to Gardner. After Okakura Kakuzō’s death, Okakura Yoshisaburo (1868-1936), the younger brother of Okakura Kakuzō, gave this watercolor by Shimomura to Gardner.

Permanent Gallery Location

Blue Room

Bibliography

Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), p. 83, fig. 11.

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Commentary

Shimomura Kanzan was an important modern painter who was colleagues in Japan with Okakura Kakuzō (1862-1913). Okakura was a close friend of Isabella Stewart Gardner and wrote an opera libretto titled, “The White Fox,” which he dedicated to Gardner. After Okakura Kakuzō’s death, Okakura Yoshisaburo (1868-1936), the younger brother of Okakura Kakuzō, gave this watercolor by Shimomura to Gardner.