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Flower Viewing (I) (Goddesses)
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Flower Viewing (I) (Goddesses)

Artist (Japanese, born 1941)
Date1971
Mediumscreenprint; color on paper
Dimensionsimage: 73.8 × 55.5 cm (29 1/16 × 21 7/8 in.)
sheet: 91.5 × 63 cm (36 × 24 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineHarriet B. Bancroft Fund
Object number1989.141.1
Label TextA graduate of Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Mayumi Oda is an internationally recognized silk-screen artist who lives and works at the Green Gulch Farm of the San Francisco Zen Center. She is a practitioner of Zen meditation. This pair of prints are from her Goddess series, which draws on traditional subjects but with a mocking interpretation from the feminist perspective. Flower viewing is a common theme of traditional Japanese art. Here the traditional modest woman is transformed into a self-confident modern female. Mayumi Oda's own comment on these two prints reads: "Cherry blossoms are the best loved flowers in Japan. I invited a dancer of a 16th century screen to join my flower viewing party. I asked her to take her costume off to enjoy the thick full blossoms and falling petals."ProvenanceMary Baskett Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
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Goddess of Love
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1980
Landscape
Oda Kazuma
1935
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Kikukawa Eizan 菊川 英山
about 1804
Flowers
Marguerite Thompson Zorach
20th Century
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Kikukawa Eizan 菊川 英山
11th mont Bunka 3, December 1806
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about 1853
A Cherry-Flower Viewing Excursion
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