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White hollyhocks
late 17th-early 18th century
- Medium
- Ink, color, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 122.2 × 48.7 cm (48 1/8 × 19 3/16 in)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Freer’s admiration of the simplicity and elegance of paintings by Ogata Korin began in 1887 with his first purchase of Japanese art from the New York art dealer, Takayanagi Tozo—a folding fan with an ink sketch of the head of a crane. Although the fan is no longer considered an authentic example, Freer acquired many works by Krin, as well as by earlier and later artists of the Rinpa school. This painting of
