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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