Flowers in Friend's Window

1928

Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Associated Names
Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Artist, American, born Japan, 1889 - 1953

Atelier Desjobert

Printer

The image shows a vase with flowers on an oval tabletop. It is rendered in monochrome using black, white, and gray tones. The vase is centered on the table, and the flowers reach upwards. Shadows and light are visible on the table, and the background indicates an indoor setting with a window or shaded wall.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

  • Dimensions

    image: 33.18 × 23.02 cm (13 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 45.24 × 32.39 cm (17 13/16 × 12 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.1029

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Davis 1991, no. L-42

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(R. E. Lewis, San Francisco, California); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1965; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1964

  • Twentieth Century Prints and Drawings, R. E. Lewis, San Francisco, California, 1964, no. 13

1977

  • American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 40

1982

  • Modernist Watercolors, Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 21

Bibliography

1991

  • Davis, Richard A. Yasuo Kuniyoshi: The Complete Graphic Work. San Francisco, CA: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1991, pp. 180-181, no. L-42.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 23/26; lower right in graphite: Y. Kuniyoshi 28

Wikidata ID

Q77014106

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