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The Chinese Taoist Immortals, Han-shan and Shih-te (Kanzan and Jittoku)

Gaho's composition exploits contrasts of dark and light tones and sets the figures in a conventional but highly simplified landscape. The painting was shown in an exhibition organized by the Kangakai (Society for the Appreciation of Paintings), which had been organized by the American Ernest F. Fenellosa (1853-1908) to promote the creation of new Japanese-style paintings. Fenellosa wrote to Charle

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The Chinese emperor Ming Huang and Yang Kuei-fei

[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Screen List, pg. 17, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also

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The Church- Brussels (Adoration)

Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G340 state 2 of 4.

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The Church- Brussels (Adoration)

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The Coast Survey Plate

2 pp

William K. Bixby (1857-1931) (C.L. Freer source)

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The Courtesan Takao

4 pp

[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, pg. 71, L. 301, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the s

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The Courtyard, Brussels

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The Daibutsuden, Hoko-ji, Kyoto

[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Panel List, L. 44, pg. 15, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the compan

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The Descent of the Ganges

This is a lovely colored drawing with an assured line, gracefully engaged figures, and an evocative, hazy mountain landscape. Its subject is an unusual rendering of the canonical Hindu narrative in which the Ganges (the goddess Ganga) descends through Shiva's jata (dreadlocks) to save the earth from a devastating drought. Ganga is often represented in Shiva's hair, as much an emblem of Shiva as hi

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The Discourse of Vimalakirti and Manjusri

9 pp

[1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1123, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, P'ang Catalogue: Antique Famous Chinese Paintings Collected by P'ang Lai Ch'en, no. 6.

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The Dog on the Kennel

Obach & Co. (1884-1911) (C.L. Freer source)

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The Dog on the Kennel

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