Butterfly and Smartweed
Un-ichi Hiratsuka, Japanese, 1895 - 1997
1966
Woodblock print on wove paper
Image: 4 7/8 × 6 9/16 in. (12.4 × 16.6 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/16 × 22 3/8 in. (18 × 56.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Colonel John L. Ames Jr., Class of 1916
PR.985.30.1
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right margin: Un-ichi Hiratsuka 1966; inscribed, lower left, in Japanese: [title]; stamped,in red ink, in block, lower left: [artist's seal]
Provenance
Franz Bader, Washington, D.C.; Colonel John Lincoln Ames, Jr. (1895-1996), Bethesda, Maryland; given to present collection, 1985.
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