About the Artwork
Owl and Red Leaves
between 1700 and 1750
Watanabe Shiko
1683-1755
Japanese
Unknown
Ink and watercolor paint on paper
Overall: 71 × 18 3/4 inches (180.3 × 47.6 cm) Image: 40 inches × 15 3/4 inches (101.6 × 40 cm) Installed: 72 inches × 18 3/4 inches × 1 inches (182.9 × 47.6 × 2.5 cm)
Paintings
Asian Art
Founders Society Purchase, Mary Martin Semmes Fund
59.405
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Stamp, in red: [seal]
Provenance
Harry C. Nail
1959-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 44, no. 3, 1965, p. 63 (ill.).
Stern, H.P. Birds, Beasts, Blossoms, and Bugs: The Nature of Japan. Exh. cat., University of California. Los Angeles, 1976, no. 94-95 (ill.).
University Liggett Antiques Show. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe Woods, 1979, p. 70.
Emura, Tomoko. “Rinpa Artists and the Samurai Class.” Bulletin of the DIA 88, no. 1/4 (2014): pp. 78, 82 (fig. 12).
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Watanabe Shiko, Owl and Red Leaves, between 1700 and 1750, ink and watercolor paint on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mary Martin Semmes Fund, 59.405.
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