Yomei No Mon Nikko, Japan | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1916.689
People: Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)
Title: Yomei No Mon Nikko, Japan
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Yomei Gate, Nikko, Japan
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 19th-20th century
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/306041

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, white gouache and chalk over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

74.3 x 55.2 cm (29 1/4 x 21 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: red pencil, l.l.: JOSEPH / LINDON / SMITH

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1916.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Accession Year: 1916
Object Number: 1916.689
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Ellen P. Conant, "Satisfactory like a Dream: Joseph Lindon Smith, a Boston Artist in Japan, 1901", Inventing Asia: American Perspectives around 1900, ed. Noriko Murai and Alan Chong, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2014), 147-165, p. 155 and repr. in color p. 155 as fig. 7

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