White hollyhocks
date: label: Date
content: late 17th-early 18th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Ogata Korin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716)
notes: label: School/Tradition
content: Rinpa
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content: 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
label: Label
content: hollyhocks, purchased from the Paris art dealer Siegfried Bing (1838–1905), repeats a subject that Korin often painted on gold-leafed screens and on hanging scrolls. The leaves of the hollyhocks employ a characteristic Rinpa technique of brushing ink or pigments to create pooled effects, then painting details in gold.
label: Provenance
content: To 1901
label: Provenance
content: Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris, to 1901 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1901 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing in 1901 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 250, pg. 56, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Bold and Beautiful: Rinpa in Japanese Art (June 28, 2015 to January 3, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: ukiyo-e
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1901.27
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ink, color, and gold on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 122.2 × 48.7 cm (48 1/8 × 19 3/16 in)