Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan

Looking East:
Western Artists and
the Allure of Japan
from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
June 28–September 15, 2014
Setagaya Art Museum
Organized by:
Setagaya Art Museum (Setagaya Arts Foundation), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
NHK, NHK Promotions Inc.
Supported by:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Embassy of the United States, Setagaya City,
Setagaya City Board of Education
With the sponsorship of:
Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.･Nipponkoa Insurance, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.,
Toyota Motor Corporation, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
This exhibition was organized by
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and
Setagaya Art Museum.
Cooperated by:
Japan Airlines, Nippon Cargo Airlines
1. Taste for Japan
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 37.1 × 25 cm
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.45668
001
007
Katsushika Hokusai
Senju in Musashi Province, from the series
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Edo period, about 1831 (Tenpō 2)
Horizontal ōban, nishiki-e | 25.2 × 36.6 cm
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.17642
Katsushika Hokusai
(Denshin kaishu) Hokusai Sketchbooks, vol. 3
Edo period, 1815 (Bunka 12)
Woodblock printed book; ink and limited color on paper
22.7 × 15.7 cm
Publisher: Kadomaruya Jinsuke
Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
1997.839
002
Utagawa Hiroshige
008
Mishima: Morning Mist, from the series Fiftythree Stations of the Tōkaidō Road
Katsushika Hokusai
One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, vol. 1 and 2
Edo period, about 1833 (Tenpō 4)
Horizontal ōban, nishiki-e | 25.1 × 37.2 cm
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidō)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.30191
vol. 1: Edo period, 1834 (Tenpō 5)
vol. 2: Edo period, 1835 (Tenpō 6)
Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
22.5 × 15.5 cm each
Publisher: Nishimura Yūzō, Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō),
Kadomaruya Jinsuke, Eirakuya Tōshirō (Tōhekidō)
Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
1997.809.1-2
003
Utagawa Hiroshige
Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and
Atake, from the series One Hundred Famous
Views of Edo
Edo period, 1857 (Ansei 4), 9th month
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 36.3 × 24.2 cm
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
Gift of C. Adrian Rübel 46.1399
004
Utagawa Hiroshige
Plum Estate, Kameido, from the series One
Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Edo period, 1857 (Ansei 4), 11th month
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 33.4 × 22 cm
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.20206
005
Utagawa Hiroshige
View from Massaki of Suijin Shrine, Uchikawa
Inlet, and Sekiya, from the series One Hundred
Famous Views of Edo
Edo period, 1857 (Ansei 4), 8th month
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 37.3 × 25.5 cm
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.45653
006
Utagawa Hiroshige
Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival,
from the series One Hundred Famous Views of
Edo
Edo period, 1857 (Ansei 4), 11th month
013
Manufactured by the ﬁrm of Frédéric Boucheron
Designed by Paul Legrand
Inkstand
1876
Silver, partial gilt, champlevé, basse-taille, cloisonné enamels
23.4 × 33.6 cm
Museum purchase with funds bequeathed by Genevieve
Gray Young in memory of Patience Young and Patience
Gray Young, Frederick Brown Fund, William E. Nickerson
Fund, Otis Norcross Fund, Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund,
H.E.Bolles Fund, Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp
Stearns Fund, Ernest Kahn Fund, Helen B. Sweeney Fund,
and European Decorative Arts Insurance, Deaccession and
Deaccession Income Funds 2000.977.1-7
014
Jules Ferdinand Jacquemart
Famille Archaïque, Japanese Porcelain, design
for plate 1 from Histoire artistique, industrielle et
commercial de la porcelain
1860
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite, with
metallic paint, on vellum
20.8 × 14.9 cm
Samuel Putnam Avery Fund 21.10742
009
Hirata School
Tsuba with design of minogame
Edo period, mid-late 17th century
Iron, enamels and gold; shippō | 8.2 × 8.2 × 0.5 cm
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.11676
015
Josiah Wedgwood and Sons
Pair of Queen’s Ware Plates
Hirata Narisuke
about 1875
Cream-colored earthenware (creamware) with transferprinted and enamel decoration
Diameter: 23.5 cm
Gift of Thomas Michie 2011.2118.1-2
Tsuba with design of insects
016
010
Edo period, late 18th-early 19th century
Shakudō, ishime-ji, enamels and gold; shippō
7.1 × 6.3 × 0.4 cm
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.11677
Félix H. Buhot
Japanese Baptism (Jean Buhot age one year)
Attributed to Ogawa Haritsu
1887
Etching | 45.7 × 35.6 cm
The Frederick Keppel Memorial Prints, gift of David Keppel
M25225
Box for writing paper with palmetto design
017
011
Edo period, 17th to 18th century
Paulownia wood with lacquer and inlaid decoration; shell
(Pinctada maxima), ceramic, suzu, gold
11.2 × 23.8 × 28.5 cm
Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
08.170a-b
012
Attributed to John Illingworth Kay or Arthur Silver
Silver Studio
Length of furnishing fabric
1890-1905
Cotton velvet, printed | 166.4 × 56.5 cm
Alice M. Bartlett Fund 2001.741
Box for writing paper with salt kiln maki-e design
018
Edo period, 18th-first half of 19th century
Wood; lacquer with maki-e decoration
4.2 × 19.1 × 26.3 cm
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.10172a-b
Suidō Bridge and Surugadai, from the series One
Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Utagawa Hiroshige
Edo period, 1857 (Ansei 4), intercalary 5th month
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 33.4 × 21.8 cm
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.16716
019
Louis Dumoulin
Carp Banners in Kyoto, Fête des Garçons
1888
Oil on canvas | 46 × 54.3 cm
Fanny P. Mason Fund in memory of Alice Thevin 1986.582
020
Henry Roderick Newman
027
Alfred Stevens
Meditation
about 1872
Oil on canvas | 40.7 × 32.4 cm
Bequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara
Bertram Kimball 23.528
028
Edmund Charles Tarbell
Reverie (Katharine Finn)
1889
Zincograph on yellow paper | 20.2 × 24.1 (49.9 × 64.8) cm
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen 60.305
037
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
The Newspaper
1883
Etching and drypoint | 37.8 × 29.2 (55 × 35.5) cm
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
2011.109
Wall Enclosing the Mausoleum of Ieyasu at Nikko,
Japan
1913
Oil on canvas | 127.3 × 86.7 cm
Bequest of Georgina S. Cary 33.400
038
1896
Watercolor on paper | 41.5 × 22.5 cm
General Funds 99.145
029
1893
Color lithograph | 58.7 × 83.7 cm
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen 60.747
Frank Weston Benson
Decorative Head
2. Women
021
Miyagawa Chōshun
Courtesan and Attendant
Edo period, 1711-36 (Shōtoku-Kyōhō era)
Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, and silver on paper
77.1 × 38.3 cm
Gift of Howard Hibbett 2009.3998
022
039
030
1898
Color lithograph | 28.3 × 40 (40.6 × 53) cm
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen 60.282
Isoda Koryūsai
Takigawa of the Tamaya in Edo-machi Nichōme,
kamuro Kochō and Kiyosa, from the series
Models for Fashion: New Year Designs as Fresh as
Young Leaves
Edo period, about 1778-80 (An’ei 7-9)
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 37.8 × 25.8 cm
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.14574
031
Standing Courtesan
Kitagawa Utamaro
023
Claude Monet
La Japonaise (Camille Monet in Japanese
Costume)
1876
Oil on canvas | 231.8 × 142.3 cm
1951 Purchase Fund 56.147
024
Takigawa of the Ōgiya, from an untitled series of
courtesans arranging flowers
Edo period, about 1802 (Kyōwa 2)
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 38.2 × 25.5 cm
Publisher: Maruya Bun’emon
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.14199
032
Edo period, about 1800 (Kansei 12)
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 39.5 × 35.1 cm
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Chūemon (Chūsuke)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.15008
Mother Holding Child as He Plays with a Toy
Fish in a Tub of Water
Edo period, about 1803 (Kyōwa 3)
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 35.3 × 24 cm
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendō)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.22154
034
Mary Stevenson Cassatt
The Bath
about 1891
Drypoint, soft ground etching and aquatint in color
31.8 × 24.6 (43.6 × 27.9) cm
Gift of William Emerson and The Hayden CollectionCharles Henry Hayden Fund 41.806
035
026
Kikukawa Eizan
Ishiyama, from the series Fashionable Eight
Views of Ōmi
Edo period, about 1809-13 (Bunka 6-10)
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 37.6 × 24.9 cm
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudō)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.17824
Jacques Villon
The Cards
1903
Color etching and aquatint | 34 × 44.5 (53.6 × 71) cm
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen 60.1281
041
Maximillian Kurzweil
The Cushion (Martha Kurzweil Seated on a Sofa)
1903
Color woodcut | 28.5 × 25.7 (38.5 × 30.5) cm
Supplement to Die Graphischen Künst: Jahresmappe des
Gesellschaft fur Vervielf. Künst in Wien 1903 M20426
042
Isoda Koryūsai
Edo period, about 1777 (An’ei 6)
Hashira-e, nishiki-e | 69.8 × 12 cm
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.21234
1898
Color lithograph | 60 × 48.8 (90.5 × 62) cm
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen 60.720
Kitagawa Utamaro
Autumn Moon at Ishiyama Temple: Hinazuru of
the Chōjiya, kamuro Tsuruji and Tsuruno, from
an untitled series of courtesans for the Eight
Views of Ōmi
040
Woman in Black Raincoat Walking in Snow
Woman’s kimono or house coat
Chōkyōsai Eiri
Our Souls, As Slow Gestures from Amour
Pinning the hat
033
025
Maurice Denis
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Retailed by Babani
early 20th century
Silk crepe, resist dyed and embroidered; silk plain weave,
block printed; silk plain weave
Length: 161.3 cm; Center back to wrist: 61.6 cm
Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund 2010.661
Cover for the First year of L’Estampe Originale
1894
Oil on canvas | 50.8 × 61 cm
Bequest of Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot 13.2907
Keisai Eisen
Edo period, 1830-44 (Tenpō era)
Vertical ōban upright diptych, aizuri-e | 76 × 25 cm
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Sanoki, Kikakudō)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.28587
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Auguste-Louis Lepère
Young Girl with Pitcher
1890
Color woodcut | 18.7 × 12.2 (19.6 × 30.4) cm
Bequest of Florence S. Gerstein 2005.226
036
Paul Gauguin
Pleasures of Brittany from Volpini Suite
043
Helen Hyde
Mother with infant and small boy
1901
Color woodcut | 54.4 × 11.8 (55.5 × 17.5) cm
Bequest of John T. Spaulding 48.916
044
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), Utagawa
Hiroshige
Summer Chrysanthemum: Actors Sawamura
Tosshō II and Sawamura Yoshijirō I, from the
series Selection of Ten Flowers Currently in Full
Bloom
Edo period, 1858 (Ansei 5), 3rd month
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 37.1 × 26.2 cm
Publisher: Ebisuya Shōshichi (Kinshōdō)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.42317
045
Vincent van Gogh
Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a
Cradle (La Berceuse)
1889
Oil on canvas | 92.7 × 72.7 cm
Bequest of John T. Spaulding 48.548
046
055
065
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Paul-Elie Ranson
Actor Iwai Kumesaburō III as Oshichi, the
Greengrocer’s Daughter
Edmée Lescot from Le Café Concert
Tiger in the Jungle
1893
Lithograph | 26.7 × 18.4 (43.3 × 32) cm
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen 60.754
1893
Color lithograph | 36.4 × 28.3 (54 × 40.5) cm
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen 63.412
056
066
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
John Dickson Batten
American Singer from Le Café Consert
Tiger
1893
Lithograph | 27.3 × 17.2 (43 × 31.8) cm
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen 60.760
early 20th century
Color woodcut | 14.1 × 20 (16.2 × 23.9) cm
Bought of John D. Batten, London M15195
057
067
Edouard Vuillard
Ishiguro Masayoshi
A Gallery at the Theatre du Gymnase
Tsuba with design of fish, shellfish and crustacea
1900
Color lithograph | 25 × 19 cm
Gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo 2010.1301
Edo period, end of the 18th to early 19th century
Brass, migaki-ji, gold, silver, shakudō, shibuichi and copper;
iroe takazogan, sue-mon
8.8 × 7.9 × 0.9 cm
Charles Goddard Weld Collection 11.5494
Edo period, 1860 (Man’en 1), 3rd month
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 38.1 × 25.5 cm
Publisher: Ebisuya Shōshichi (Kinshōdō)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.15499
047
Emile Bernard
The Artist’s Grandmother
1887
Oil on canvas | 60 × 50.5 cm
Francis Welch Fund 61.165
3. City Life
048
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Performance of Sumō Fund-raising Tournament
Edo period, 1843-47 (Tenpō 14-Kōka 4)
Vertical ōban triptych, nishiki-e | 36.7 × 75.1 cm
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.14041-3
049
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Jockey
1899
Lithograph | 51.4 × 36 (51.4 × 36) cm
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen 60.768
050
Edouard Vuillard
Poster for the aperitif Bécane
about 1894
Color lithograph | 80.6 × 60.3 cm
Gift of Mrs. Frederick B. Deknatel 1985.242
051
William Nicholson
Skating from An Almanac of Twelve Sports
1897
Color woodcut with hand coloring
19.9 × 19.9 (40.4 × 34.2) cm
Gift of Francis Bullard M22343.12
052
John Edgar Platt
The Giant Stride
058
Aubrey Beardsley
Poster for The Savoy
about 1896
Color lithograph | 23.2 × 17.4 (32.2 × 25.5) cm
Lee M. Friedman Fund 65.1025
059
Félix Edouard Vallotton
The Downpour from Paris Intense
1894
Zincograph | 22.7 × 31.2 (32.1 × 44.2) cm
Lee M. Friedman Fund 63.128
060
Robert Earle Henri
Sidewalk Café
about 1899
Oil on canvas | 81.6 × 65.7 cm
Emily L. Ainsley Fund 59.657
061
John Sloan
Flowers of Spring
1924
Oil on canvas | 76.5 × 63.8 cm
Gift of Miss Amelia E. White 67.1162
4. Nature
053
1878 (Meiji 11)
Scrap from letterpress books | 44.8 × 30.3 cm
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.26354
1884 (Meiji 17), registered October 24
Vertical ōban triptych, nishiki-e | 36 × 70.6 cm
Publisher: Ōkura Magobei
Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection 2000.491a-c
054
Edgar Degas
Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs
1876-77
Lithograph | 20.4 × 19.4 (34.4 × 27.4) cm
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen 60.258
Tsuba with design of octopus and seashells
Late Edo period to Meiji era, 19th century
Shibuichi, gold, silver, shakudō and copper, copper semegane;
usuniku-bori, sue-mon
8.2 × 7.3 × 0.9 cm
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.12493
069
Gorham Manufacturing Company
Five of a set of twelve knives with Japanese
kozuka-style handles
about 1881
Silver with gilding | 20.3 cm each
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from a Gift of
Harold Whitworth Pierce, Bequest of Maury A. Bromsen,
Gift of Penelope Noyes, Gift of Richard Edwards, Gift
of Mrs. Henrietta Page, Gift of Bloomingdale’s, Bequest
of Helen S. Coolidge, Bequest of Mrs. Edward Jackson
Holmes, Gift of Mrs. Bradley Dewey, Bequest of Sarah E.
Montague, American Decorative Arts Curator’s Fund, Gift
of the Estate of Ruth A. Safford, Bequest of Mrs. Charles R.
Codman, and Bequest of Charles Hitchcock Tyler, Bequest
of Mrs. Edna H. Howe 2008.76.3,4,6,9,12
070
Tea caddy
062
Illustration of the Opening Ceremony of the Union
Horse Racing Club’s Racetrack around Shinobazu
Pond in Ueno Park
Ichiunsai Hideuji
Gorham Manufacturing Company
1918
Color woodcut | 16.9 × 41.4 (19.1 × 43.5) cm
Museum purchase with funds donated by Hope and Charles
Hare 2000.931
Yōshū Chikanobu
068
Utagawa Hiroshige III
Nine pages from the book Pictures of One
Hundred Cats
063
Edouard Manet
The Cats’ Rendezvous
1868
Crayon lithograph | 42.7 × 33 (48.5 × 38.5) cm
Gift of W. G. Russell Allen 32.472
064
1881
Copper, silver | 10.5 × 10.5 × 9.4 cm; Dia of base: 7.3 cm
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs.
Fred G. Peil, Irma M. Lampert, Henry B. and Klaudia
S. Shepard Jr., Gage Bailey Jr., Dr. and Mrs. Francis de
Marneffe, Charles S. Nichols, Frank and M. L. Coolidge,
Jane E. Coolidge, Angela B. Fischer, Elisha W. Hall II,
Ruth F. Hamlen, Faith Moore, Olivia and John Parker, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter W. Patten, Jr., J. E. Robinson III, John
and Patricia Rodgers, Irvin and Rebekah Taube, Anne D.
Moffett, and Louise and Jonathan L. Fairbanks 1991.636
071
Attributed to Katsukawa Shunshō
Cranes and Plum Branch
Edo period, 1770s (Meiwa 7-An’ei 8)
Vertical chūban, nishiki-e | 20.2 × 15.1 cm
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the
Denman Waldo Ross Collection 47.104
072
Félix Bracquemond or Henri Lambert
Utagawa Kunisada
Cranes (Preparatory design for a ceramic plate)
Tiger
about 1870
Black ink and graphite on blue paper | 37.2 × 42.2 cm
Seth K. Sweetser Fund, Harriet Otis Cruft Fund, and Helen
B. Sweeney Fund 2005.594
Edo period, 1830 (Bunsei 13), 1st month
Shikishiban, surimono | 21.2 × 18.1 cm
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.25970
073
Plateelfabriek Rozenburg
Charger
about 1897
Lead-glazed white earthenware with colored enamel
decoration
Diameter: 44.1 cm
Gift of Gail and Michael Mazur in honor of Manuel and
Mildred Beckwith 1996.404
074
Utagawa Hiroshige
Fukagawa Susaki and Jūmantsubo, from the
series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Edo period, 1857 (Ansei 4), intercalary 5th month
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 36.4 × 24.6 cm
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
Gift of C. Adrian Rübel 46.1402
8.9 × 24.1 × 16.5 cm; 1.9 × 19.7 × 12.1 cm;
1.9 × 7.6 × 24.8 cm; 22.2 × 31.8 × 8.9 cm
Anonymous gift in memory of John G. Pierce, Sr.
RES.65.53,57,59,60
085
Tiffany Studios
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Frame, “Etched metal and glass pattern; pine
needles motif ”
1899-1918
Metal (probably copper or bronze), Favrile glass
1.3 × 19.7 × 23.5 cm
Anonymous gift in memory of John G. Pierce, Sr.
RES.65.56
086
Tiffany Studios
Louis Comfort Tiffany
silver, and mica on paper
21 × 17.9 cm
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.19804
093
James Ensor
Still Life with Sea Shells
1923
Oil on paperboard mounted on a cradled wooden panel
44.5 × 55 cm
Gift of G. Peabody Gardner 60.124
094
Henri Matisse
Vase of Flowers
1924
Oil on canvas | 60.6 × 73.7 cm
Bequest of John T. Spaulding 48.577
075
Louis Comfort Tiffany “Abalone” inkwell
095
Frank Weston Benson
1899-1918
Metal (probably copper), Abalone shells (Haliotis fulgens)
7.6 × 9.5 × 9.5 cm
Anonymous gift in memory of John G. Pierce, Sr.
RES.65.58
Otto Eckmann
Early Morning
about 1899
Oil on canvas | 61.3 × 152.7 cm
Bequest of Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot 13.2908
076
Designed by Theodorus van Hoytema
Executed by Tine Hogervorst van Hoytema
Three-fold embroidered screen
1896
linen embroidered with colored silks, in glazed, three-panel
ebonized wood frame. Backed with modern silk
79.4 × 135.5 cm
Gift of Justin G. Schiller and Dennis M. V. David 2010.593
077
Mori Tetsuzan
Butterflies
Edo period, 1820s-1830s (Bunsei 3-Tenpō 10)
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 36.4 × 25.7 cm
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.17491
078
Elkington & Co.
Marked by Frederick Elkington
Tea set (Tray, Sugar Bowl, Cream Jug)
1874-75
Silver, gilded silver
H. 2.6 × W. 44.1 × D. 24.6 cm; H. 7.9 × W. 12.9 cm,
Diameter: 7.7 cm; H. 8.1 × W. 8.3 cm, Diameter: 4.9 cm
Gift of Mrs. Frederick T. Bradbury, by exchange 1991.539,
541, 542
079
Elkington & Co.
Marked by Frederick Elkington
087
Attributed to Isoda Koryūsai
Arrangement of Pine Branches
Edo period, about 1770-72 (Meiwa 7-An’ei 1)
Vertical chūban, nishiki-e | 28.1 × 21.1 cm
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.19760
088
Charles Caryl Coleman
Still Life with Azaleas and Apple Blossoms
1878
Oil on canvas | 180.3 × 62.9 cm
Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund, Paintings
Department Special Fund, American Paintings Deaccession
Fund, and Museum purchase with funds donated by
William R. Elfers Fund, an anonymous donor, Mr. and
Mrs. E. Lee Perry, Jeanne G. and Stokley P. Towles, Mr.
Robert M. Rosenberg and Ms. Victoria DiStefano, Mr. and
Mrs. John Lastavica, and Gift of Dr. Fritz B. Talbot and
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles
Gaston Smith’s Group, by exchange 2001.255
089
Edouard Vuillard
Roses in a Glass Vase
about 1919
Oil on canvas | 37.2 × 47 cm
Bequest of Mrs. Edward Wheelwright, by exchange, and
Paintings Department Special Fund 41.107
090
Frank Weston Benson
Jug
The Silver Screen
1879-80
Silver, parcel gilt | H. 22 × W. 18.7 × D. 14.4 cm
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe
Wilbour 1998.60
1921
Oil on canvas | 92.1×112.1 cm
A. Shuman Collection-Abraham Shuman Fund 1979.615
091
080
Artist Unknown, Japanese
Stencil with design of textiles in vegetal and
geometric patterns
Edo period-Meiji Era, 19th Century
Cut mulberry paper | 16.6 × 34.5 cm
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection RES.11.748
081–084
Tiffany Studios
Louis Comfort Tiffany
“Grapevine” Desk set (Box, Desk writing pad
cover, Pen tray, Letter rack)
1899-1928
Metal (probably copper), Favrile glass
Kitagawa Utamaro
Gifts from the Ebb Tide
Edo period, about 1789 (Kansei 1)
Ōbon; Woodblock-printed book; ink, color, mica, and brass
dust on paper
27.2 × 19.1 cm
Publisher: Tsutaya Jūzaburō (Kōshodō)
William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection 1997.953
092
Totoya Hokkei
Manaita-iwa, from the series Souvenirs of
Enoshima, a Set of Sixteen
Edo period, 1833 (Tenpō 4)
Shikishiban; Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, gold,
Irises
1895
Color woodcut | 21.5 × 12.5 (36.8 × 27.8) cm
Harvey D. Parker Collection P4063
096
Henry de Waroquier
Drawing for Fans
1902
India ink, orange gouache, and graphite on paper
48 × 31.5 cm
Abbott Lawrence Fund 1988.384
097
Peter Behrens
Butterflies on Waterlilies
1897
Color woodcut | 49.5 × 63.5 (56.5 × 69.1) cm
Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis 1985.247
098
Newcomb Pottery
Potter: Joseph Fortune Meyer
Decorated by Marie de Hoa LeBlanc and Emilie de
Hoa LeBlanc
Vase
about 1902
Glazed earthenware | 29.2 × 16.5 × 16.5 cm
Laurie Crichton Memorial Fund 1980.226
099–102
Gisbert Combaz
Publisher: Dietrich et Cie.
(from upper left to lower right) Air, Water,
Water, Fire from the series Elements
1898
Color lithograph | 8.9 × 14 cm each
Gift of Leonard A. Lauder 2012.6922.2,4,6,13
103
Edna Boies Hopkins
Butterflies
about 1914
Color woodcut | 25.7 × 23.2 (38.9 × 32.8) cm
Bequest of John T. Spaulding 48.898
104
Blanche Lazzell
The Violet Jug
1926 (block cut 1919)
Color woodcut | 29.2 × 29.2 cm
Gift of Leslie and Johanna Garfield 2001.877
105
Emile Gallé
Vase
about 1895-1900
Blown colored glass with etched and enameled decoration
H. 19.1 cm
Gift of Arthur B. Nichols, in memory of Dorothy Nichols,
his daughter 64.2000
106
Steuben Glass Works
Designed by Frederick C. Carder
Blue Aurene fan vase
about 1927
Iridized lead glass with applied ornament
21.6 × 17.8 × 10.2 cm
Gift of The New Bedford Glass Society, Inc. 1992.84
5. Landscape
107
Félix H. Buhot
Port with Seagulls
1886
Etching | 24.6 × 35.8 (28 × 44) cm
Keppel Memorial Prints. Gift of David Keppel M25004
108
Henri Guérard
Sunset, Honfleur
1896
Woodcut | 46.4 × 29.5 (49.5 × 33) cm
Gift of the Print and Drawing Club 1998.33
109
Utagawa Hiroshige
Okazaki: Yahagi Bridge, from the series Fiftythree Stations of the Tōkaidō Road
Edo period, about 1833 (Tenpō 4)
Horizontal ōban, nishiki-e | 25.1 × 37 cm
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidō)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.17253
110
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Old Battersea Bridge
1879
Etching | 20 × 29.5 (25.9 × 40.5) cm
Gift of Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz M21275
111
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Nocturne
1878
Lithotint on pale blue paper | 17.1 × 25.9 (34.3 × 50.6) cm
Gift of Horatio Greenough Curtis M27987
112
John Henry Twachtman
Canal Scene
early 1880s
Oil on canvas | 38.1 × 45.4 cm
Gift of the estate of Mrs. Sarah Wyman Whitman 09.214
113
William Edward Norton
Night
1890
Oil on canvas | 58.4 × 76.2 cm
Harry Wallace Anderson Fund 2011.188
114
Hermann Dudley Murphy
The Adriatic Sea
about 1908
Oil on canvas | 50.8 × 68.9 cm
Gift of Miss Mary Thacher 45.777
115
124
Charles Herbert Woodbury
Anne W. Brigman
Off the Florida Coast
Sanctuary
about 1902
Oil on canvas | 73.3 × 91.8 cm
Gift of Subscribers 05.47
1921
Photograph, gelatin silver print, toned | 25.1 × 19.7 cm
Lucy Dalbiac Luard Fund 1998.71
116
125
Paul Signac
Edward Weston
Port of Saint-Cast
Blossoms
1890
Oil on canvas | 66 × 82.5 cm
Gift of William A. Coolidge 1991.584
1912
Photograph, platinum-palladium print | 22.7×14.3 cm
Anonymous Lender L-R 1400.2003
117
126
Utagawa Hiroshige
Margrethe Mather
Numazu: Twilight, from the series Fifty-three
Stations of the Tōkaidō Road
Pointed Pines
Edo period, about 1833 (Tenpō 4)
Horizontal ōban, nishiki-e | 24.4 × 36.7 cm
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidō)
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.23087
118
Arthur Wesley Dow
View of Ipswich
1895
Color woodcut | 12.5 × 5.8 (16 × 9) cm
Gift of Mrs. Ethelyn H. Putnam 41.712
1920
Photograph, platinum-palladium print | 24.4 × 19.4 cm
Anonymous Lender L-R 1412.2003
127
F. Benedict Herzog
Angela
published 1905
Photogravure, printed on Japan tissue
21 × 17.2 (29 × 20.5) cm
Gift of Michael W. and Elizabeth Marcus 1984.483
128
119
Utagawa Hiroshige
Arthur Wesley Dow
Suruga-chō, from the series One Hundred
Famous Views of Edo
Marshy Landscape
about 1900
Photograph, cyanotype | 12.7 × 20.2 cm
Gift of Philio Wigglesworth Cushing and Henry Coolidge
Wigglesworth from the collection of their parents Frank and
Anne Wiggleworth in memory of their love for Ipswitch. M.
and M. Karolik Fund and Charles H. Bayley Picture and
Painting Fund 2006.1277.139
120
Arthur Wesley Dow
Trees by a Marsh
about 1900
Photograph, cyanotype | 12.6 × 20.1 cm
Gift of Philio Wigglesworth Cushing and Henry Coolidge
Wigglesworth from the collection of their parents Frank and
Anne Wiggleworth in memory of their love for Ipswitch. M.
and M. Karolik Fund and Charles H. Bayley Picture and
Painting Fund 2006.1277.66
121
Arthur Wesley Dow
Garden Gate
about 1900
Photograph, cyanotype | 15.4 × 21 cm
Gift of Philio Wigglesworth Cushing and Henry Coolidge
Wigglesworth from the collection of their parents Frank and
Anne Wiggleworth in memory of their love for Ipswitch. M.
and M. Karolik Fund and Charles H. Bayley Picture and
Painting Fund 2006.1277.185
122
George H. Seeley
Winter Reflections
1905-06
Photograph, platinum print | 24.1 × 19 cm
A. Shuman Collection-Abraham Shuman Fund 1988.159
123
Karl Struss
Edo period, 1856 (Ansei 3), 9th month
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 33.5 × 21.8 cm
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.16694
129
Pierre Bonnard
Street Seen from above from Some Scenes of
Parisian Life
1894
Color lithograph | 36.4 × 22.4 (53.2 × 39.4) cm
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen 60.56
130
Gustave Baumann
Bright Angel Trail
1921
Color woodcut | 24.3 × 28.4 (34.2 × 43) cm
John Wheelock Elliott Fund 38.965
131
Utagawa Hiroshige
Inari Bridge and Minato Shrine, Teppōzu, from
the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Edo period, 1857 (Ansei 4), 2nd month
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 33.4 × 21.8 cm
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.17036
132
Henri Rivière
The Chéruette Beacon at Low Tide, Saint-Briac,
Brittany
1890
Color woodcut on beige Japanese paper
22.7 × 35.2 (34 × 50) cm
Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund, by exchange 1983.225
Wave Patterns, Laguna
133
1920-27
Photograph, vintage gelatin silver print | 35.3 × 27.5 cm
Sophie M. Friedman Fund 1995.133
Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
The Rock, Nahant
1906
Color woodcut | 21 × 35 cm
Museum purchase with funds donated by Ruth V. S. Lauer
in memory of her mother, Flora Kelly Van Sciver 1999.526
134
139
144
Frank Morley Fletcher
Utagawa Hiroshige
Claude Monet
Meadow-sweet
Atagoshita and Yabu Lane, from the series One
Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Seacoast at Trouville
1897
Color woodcut | 25.3 × 17.2 (30.8 × 20.5) cm
Gift of William Sturgis Bigelow Collection M12841
Edo period, 1857 (Ansei 4), 12th month
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 33.2 × 21.2 cm
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.17020
135
1881
Oil on canvas | 60.7 × 81.3 cm
The John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss
Theodora Lyman 19.1314
145
Jacobus Gerardus Veldheer
140
Utagawa Hiroshige
Camille Pissarro
Morning Sunlight on the Snow, Éragny-sur-Epte
Mariko: Famous Tea Shop, from the series Fiftythree Stations of the Tōkaidō Road
Martha Cunz
1895
Oil on canvas | 82.3 × 61.6 cm
The John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss
Theodora Lyman 19.1321
Edo period, about 1833 (Tenpō 4)
Horizontal ōban, nishiki-e | 22 × 34.2 cm
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidō)
MFA, Boston 2009.2411.21
Leisure Time
141
146
Philip Leslie Hale
Claude Monet
Landscape
Grainstack (Sunset)
about 1890
Oil on canvas | 46 × 55.9 cm
Gift of Nancy Hale Bowers 1985.689
1891
Oil on canvas | 73.3 × 92.7 cm
Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection 25.112
142
147
Edvard Munch
Claude Monet
Waves
about 1915
Color woodcut | 29.8 × 39.5 (42.6 × 54.5) cm
Lee M. Friedman Fund 1994.60
136
1906
Color woodcut | 29.8 × 45 (35 × 48.8) cm
Museum purchase with funds donated in memory of Bernie
Shapiro 2010.965
137
Utagawa Hiroshige
Dawn at Kanda Myōjin Shrine, from the series
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Edo period, 1857 (Ansei 4), 9th month
Vertical ōban, nishiki-e | 36.5 × 25 cm
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi
Gift of Dr. G. S. Amsden 52.1418
Summer Night’s Dream (The Voice)
The Water Lily Pond
1893
Oil on canvas | 87.9 × 108 cm
Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund 59.301
1900
Oil on canvas | 90.2 × 92.7 cm
Given in memory of Governor Alvan T. Fuller by the Fuller
Foundation 61.959
138
143
John La Farge
Utagawa Hiroshige
148
A Hillside Study (Two Trees)
Yokkaichi: Mie River, from the series Fifty-three
Stations of the Tōkaidō Road
Claude Monet
Water Lilies
Edo period, about 1833 (Tenpō 4)
Horizontal ōban, nishiki-e | 22 × 34.6 cm
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidō)
MFA, Boston 2009.2411.44
1905
Oil on canvas | 89.5 × 100.3 cm
Gift of Edward Jackson Holmes 39.804
about 1862
Oil on canvas | 61 × 32.7 cm
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 26.771
Floor Plan
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Shop
4. Nature
5. Landscape
4. Nature
5. Landscape
5. Landscape
2. Women
Conservation of
La Japonaise
3. City Life
Exit⇨
Theater
Lounge
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2. Women
2nd Floor
1. Taste for Japan
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Notes
• The plate captions are based on information provided by the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston. The data for each object is listed in the following order:
Catalogue number, Artist name, Title, Date of creation, Materials and
techniques, Measurements, Credits and inventory numbers.
• Objects are not necessarily displayed in the galleries in catalogue number
order.
• All exhibits are the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
• Changes in the objects displayed may occur depending on circumstances.
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