Artist
Shomei Tomatsu(Japanese, 1930–2012)Japanese, 1930–2012
CultureJapanese
Titles
- from Oh! Shinjuku
Date1969, printed 1980
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/16 × 12 3/16 in. (23 × 30.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 in. (30.2 × 38.1 cm)
Frame (outer) (ANW EXHIBITION FRAME): 16 15/16 × 20 15/16 × 1 1/4 in. (43 × 53.2 × 3.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 in. (30.2 × 38.1 cm)
Frame (outer) (ANW EXHIBITION FRAME): 16 15/16 × 20 15/16 × 1 1/4 in. (43 × 53.2 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2014.720
Non exposé
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ProvenanceArtist; Ms. Yasuko Tomatsu, Japan; Ishiuchi Miyako (dealer), Japan; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2014
Exhibition History"Tomatsu Shomei: Skin of the Nation," 2006, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Japan Society Gallery, New York City.
"Tomatsu Shomei: Island Life", Art Institute of Chicago, 2013-14
“For A New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979 Japan,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 8–July 12, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil on verso: 1969 [signature] '80
Signed in pencil on verso: Tom (underlined)
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