About the Artwork
Flowers and Insects
between early and mid-19th century
Tsubaki Chinzan
1801 - 1854
Japanese
Unknown
Ink and watercolor on silk
Overall: 16 3/8 × 111 inches (41.6 × 281.9 cm) Image: 14 1/4 × 111 inches (36.2 × 281.9 cm)
Paintings
Asian Art
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Endicott
82.31
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Markings
Signed: Chinzan Tsubaki Hitsu
Inscribed: [notations throughout]
Stamps, center left, near end of the scroll: [two artist's seals]
Provenance
(Klaus F. Naumann, Tokyo, Japan)
1982-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, April 28, 1991,p. 14 (ill.).
Abiko, Bonnie. "Handscroll of 'Flowers and Insects' by Tsubaki Chinzan." Bulletin of the DIA 74, no. 1/2 (2000): pp. 32-43.
Augustin, Birgitta. “Idealist Painting and the Samurai.” Bulletin of the DIA 88, no. 1/4 (2014): pp. 93, 99 (fig. 11).
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Tsubaki Chinzan, Flowers and Insects, between early and mid-19th century, ink and watercolor on silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Endicott, 82.31.
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