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    Handwritten Letter
    Soga Shōhaku 曾我 蕭白. Handwritten Letter, c. 1754. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001773

    Handwritten Letter

    by Soga Shōhaku 曾我 蕭白

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Private collection; sold through Tokyo Art Club, Tokyo, to London Gallery, Tokyo, Jan. 2019 [according to correspondence from London Gallery, Sept. 20, 2023; copy in curatorial object file]; offered to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

    Exhibition history

    Soga Shohaku: The Ultimate Eccentric, Aichi Prefectural Art Museum, 2021.

    Publications

    Kimura Shigekazu, “Two letters with a Self-portrait by Soga Shōhaku.” Kokka 1430 (December, 2014). Yamashita Yoshiya, “Mount Fuji and Miho no Matsubara screens by Soga Shōhaku.” Kokka 1472 (June 2018), pp. 24-30. Soga Shōhaku: The Ultimate Eccentric, Aichi Prefectural Art Museum, 2021, catalogue #6, pp. 36-7. 140-1.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Soga Shōhaku 曾我 蕭白 / Japanese, 1730-1781
    Date
    c. 1754
    Medium
    Two hanging scrolls, ink on paper
    Dimensions
    121.3 × 54.5 cm (47 13/16 × 21 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Place
    Japan
    Department
    Arts of Asia
    Credit line
    Through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson
    Accession no.
    2023.3070

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