topic:"Japan" found 4 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Pertains to Dr. Edward Sylvester Morse who travelled to Japan in 1877 and again in 1882, amassing a large collection of Japanese ceramics and other cultural objects. Part of his collection is at the Peabody Museum and the other part was a bequest to his grand-daughter Catharine Robb Whyte which now resides at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

Contents: Forward by Anne Ewen, Curator of Art and Heritage - 34 colour photographs of objects presented as part of this Exhibition

ISBN: 978-0-920608-61-6

Accession Number: 2019.15

Call Number: 06.1 Ew3f copy 1; 06.1 Ew3f copy 2; 06.1 Ew3f copy 3

Collection: Archives Library

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Japanese women artists, 1600-1900

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1988

Author: Fister, Pat; Yamamoto, Fumiko Y.

Publisher: Lawrence : Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

Call Number: 06.1 F52j

Author: Fister, Pat; Yamamoto, Fumiko Y.

Publisher: Lawrence : Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

Published Date: 1988

Physical Description: 197 pages : illustrations (some color)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Art; Japan; Japanese; Women; Exhibition catalogue; Exhibitions

Abstract: Pertains to the history of women artists in Japan spanning 1600 to 1900

Contents: Noblewomen artists : Ono Ozu. Ryonen Genso -- Atelier professionals : Kiyohara Yukinobu. Sasaki Shogen -- Ukiyo-e painters : Yamazaki Ryu-jo. Inagaki Tsuru-jo -- Haiku poet-painters : "Chiyo and Kikusha : two haiku poets" / Fumiko Y. Yamamoto -- Waka poets in Kyoto : Ohashi. Kaji. Yuri. Ike Gyokuran -- Bunjin (Literati artists) : Ko Raikin. Tani Kankan -- Late Edo-period Bunjin : Tachihara Shunsa. Ema Saiko. Yoshida Shuran. Cho Koran. Tokai Okon -- Ukiyo-e painters and printmakers : Katsushika Oi. Katsushika Tatsu. Kakuju-jo. Yoshitori -- Waka poet-painters in Kyoto : Takabatake Shikibu. Otagaki Rengetsu -- Early Meiji-period Bunjin : Okuhara Seiko. Noguchi Shohin.

Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Spencer Museum of Art, Apr. 2-May 22, 1988 and the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Sept. 21-Oct. 23, 1988.

ISBN: 0913689254

Accession Number: P2019-33

Call Number: 06.1 F52j

Collection: Archives Library

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Nikko, Japan, Iyeyasu's Mausoleum

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.002

Description: A many stepped stone structure on right side with a cylinder cap and Japanese-style temple roof adornment. It is coloured with green and brown with slight highlights of red. At the base and in the foreground is a stone slab with what could be offerings and a figure of a crane-like bird coloured i…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Nikko, Japan, Iyeyasu's Mausoleum

Date: 1929

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.0 cm

Description: A many stepped stone structure on right side with a cylinder cap and Japanese-style temple roof adornment. It is coloured with green and brown with slight highlights of red. At the base and in the foreground is a stone slab with what could be offerings and a figure of a crane-like bird coloured in brown and green.

Subject: mausoleum; shrine; temple; Japan

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.002

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Temple, Japan

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.003

Description: A gray watercoloured stone path leads back to a Japanese temple with two levels of curving roof. The path winds through a garden of stone sculptures that stand on pedestals before reaching the temple. The temple is coloured with red on the outside walls and windows are yellow and the sloping roof…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Temple, Japan

Date: 1929

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 31.0 x 24.5 cm

Description: A gray watercoloured stone path leads back to a Japanese temple with two levels of curving roof. The path winds through a garden of stone sculptures that stand on pedestals before reaching the temple. The temple is coloured with red on the outside walls and windows are yellow and the sloping roofs are green. A stone wall is to the right of the temple and behind it is a tree trunk painted in brown with two branches in yellow and green. Framing the image to the right is the beginning of a curved gable that enters into the frame but is discontinued.

Subject: temple; shrine; Japan

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.003

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