id: 293239
accession number: 2016.546
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.546
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Dancing Fox, 1900–1910s. Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877–1945). Color woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Delbert Gutridge, CMA Registrar 1968-1996 2016.546
title: Dancing Fox
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creation date: 1900–1910s
creation date earliest: 1900
creation date latest: 1919
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creditline: Gift in honor of Delbert Gutridge, CMA Registrar 1968-1996
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technique: Color woodcut
department: Japanese Art
collection: Japanese Art
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Newland, Perree, and Schapp K41.15
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CREATORS
* Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877–1945) - artist
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edition of the work: Edition with grasses in the background.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Carol and David Thum, Lakewood, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?–2016
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2016–
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In this whimsical Japanese color woodcut, a fox holds a giant green leaf on its head and dances on its hind legs in the rain. A prolific printmaker, Ohara Koson created hundreds of kachōga, a genre encompassing images of nature. Translating characteristics of traditional Japanese painting into color woodcuts, Koson depicted flowers, insects, fish, birds, and mammals. Dancing Fox is one of a few in which he imagined a lighthearted scenario.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Newland, Amy Reigle, Jan Perrée, and Robert Schaap. Crows, Cranes & Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945 Japanese Prints from the Jan Perrée Collection. Leiden: Hotei Pub, 2001.
page number: p. 191, no. K41.15
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