# White hollyhocks

- By: Ogata Korin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1901.27/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/ed6ee6f669ee5f41a23d50c2cc2ba081.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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