Butterfly and Smartweed

Un-ichi Hiratsuka, Japanese, 1895 - 1997

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1966

Woodblock print on wove paper

Image: 4 7/8 × 6 9/16 in. (12.4 × 16.6 cm)

Sheet: 7 1/16 × 22 3/8 in. (18 × 56.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Colonel John L. Ames Jr., Class of 1916

PR.985.30.1

Geography

Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right margin: Un-ichi Hiratsuka 1966; inscribed, lower left, in Japanese: [title]; stamped,in red ink, in block, lower left: [artist's seal]

Provenance

Franz Bader, Washington, D.C.; Colonel John Lincoln Ames, Jr. (1895-1996), Bethesda, Maryland; given to present collection, 1985.

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