Pheasant on a Snow-Covered Willow

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Pheasant on a Snow-Covered Willow

1887

Kano Hōgai (Japanese, 1828–1888)

Kano Hōgai trained withJapan’s influential Kano school of painters, who worked for Japan’s military rulers for more than four hundred years. He learned about the Western realistic style through art historian Ernest Fenollosa, one of his closest friends and patrons. Here you can see new influences at work, especially in Hōgai’s depiction of the pheasant’s feathers.

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Object Details

Title:

Pheasant on a Snow-Covered Willow

Date:

1887

Artist:

Kano Hōgai (Japanese, 1828–1888)

Medium:

Ink and color on paper; mounted as a hanging scroll

Dimensions:

53 1/4 × 23 5/8 inches (135.2 × 60 cm) Mount: 7 feet 11 5/8 inches × 30 1/4 inches (242.9 × 76.8 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. Moncure Biddle in memory of her father, Ernest F. Fenollosa, 1941

Accession Number:

1941-107-11

Geography:

Made in Japan, Asia

Context:

Period: Meiji Period (1868-1912) Reign: Meiji Emperor (1868-1912)

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