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Yamamoto Baiitsu
Dragonfly and Pinks with Waterfall1830s-1856

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Hanging scroll painting in ink and light color on cream paper, depicting a cliff face with bamboo, small pink blossoms, and a dragonfly, with a red seal and East Asian script signature at lower left
Hanging scroll with three large Chinese characters in black ink arranged vertically, followed by two red square seals with seal-script inscriptions below.

Yamamoto Baiitsu, Dragonfly and Pinks with Waterfall, 1830s-1856, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Felix and Helen Juda Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Yamamoto Baiitsu
Japan, 1783-1856
Title
Dragonfly and Pinks with Waterfall
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1830s-1856
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
One from a pair of hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image: 53 x 19 in. (134.62 x 48.26 cm); Mount: 81 1/4 X 22 in. (206.4 x 55.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Felix and Helen Juda Foundation
Accession Number
62.3b
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Speer, Richard. The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020.

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