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Anonymous
Willows, Bridge, and Water Wheelcirca 1580-1600

Not on view
Six-panel folding screen, ink and gold leaf on paper, with two gnarled dark trees flanking a diagonal bridge structure beneath stippled clouds on a warm amber ground
Artist or Maker
Anonymous
Title
Willows, Bridge, and Water Wheel
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
circa 1580-1600
Period
Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573-1603) or Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Ink and color on gold paper, applied copper
Dimensions
Panel: 64 1/2 × 135 in. (163.83 × 342.9 cm) each
Credit Line
Ernest Larsen Blanck Memorial Fund
Accession Number
58.26.2
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Murase, Miyeko. Japanese Art : Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
  • Stearns, Robert; T. Hara; K. Iizawa; Robert T. Singer. Photography and Beyond in Japan: Space, Time and Memory. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995.
  • Murase, Miyeko. By¯obu: Japanese Screens from New York Collections. New York, NY: New York Asia Society/ New York Graphic Society, 1971.
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. West Germany: Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Speer, Richard. The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020.