HAM: Calligraphy

Sharing Calligraphy collection from Harvard Art Museums - Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums.

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The Pink (Tokonatsu), Chapter 26 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), 26th of 54 Volumes, 17th-18th century, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia Size: H. 16.5 x W. 16.3 cm (6 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.) Medium: 26th of a set of 54 thread-bound books; ink on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/93406

[aic-asian]

Face Powder, from the series “New Twelve Images of Modern Beauties”, Ito Shinsui, 1919, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Clarence Buckingham Collection Size: 43.2 × 26.0 cm Medium: Color woodblock print

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/3282/

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Calligraphy Album Leaf, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia Medium: Album leaf; ink on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/47806

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Section of the Bright Moon Diary (Meigetsu-ki), Fujiwara Teika, Kamakura period, ninth month of 1226, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Donald F. Hyde Size: text only: H. 29.3 x W. 316.5 cm (11 9/16 x 124 5/8 in.) Medium: Nine sheets of (used) paper mounted as a handscroll; ink on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/202098

[met-asian]

Maebyeong decorated with lotus, 11th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asian Art

Fletcher Fund, 1927 Size: H. 10 ½ in. (26.7 cm) Medium: Stoneware with iron-brown design under celadon glaze

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/42305

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Poem on Fan, Wang Guxiang [Wang Ku-hsiang], Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia Size: 23.8 x 51 cm (9 3/8 x 20 1/16 in.) Medium: Fan mounted as album leaf; ink on silvery paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/211223

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Colophon Accompanying "Travelers in a Mountain Valley" (1923.175.A), 14th century, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Edward B. Bruce Collection of Chinese Paintings; Gift of Galen L. Stone Size: H. 22 x W. 29 cm (8 11/16 x 11 7/16 in.) Medium: Section of a handscroll mounted as an album leaf; ink on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/209832

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The Floating Bridge of Dreams (Yume no Ukihashi), Calligraphic Excerpt from Chapter 54 of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), Jōhōji Kōjo, Muromachi period, datable to 1509-1510, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia Size: H. 24.0 cm x W. 18.4 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/4 in.) Medium: The fifty-fourth of a series of 54 kotobagaki (calligraphic album leaves) mounted in an album with illustrations; ink and color on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/199696

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Twenty Nō Plays (Yōkyoku nijūban), 17th of 20 Volumes, Kanze Tadachika (Kokusetsu), Early Edo period, 1625 (11th month), Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia Size: 24 x 17.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 in.) Medium: Twenty manuscript books; ink on paper, with cover paintings in gold pigment on indigo-dyed paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/92703

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Butterflies (Kochō), Calligraphy to Chapter 24 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), Emperor Gonijō, Kamakura period, circa 12th-14th century, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia Size: H. 32.4 x W. 152 cm (12 3/4 x 59 13/16 in.) Medium: Handscroll fragment mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper decorated with gold and silver leaf

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/211504

[cma-chinese-art]

Portrait of Buddhist Monks of Obaku Sect, 1600s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese Art

Size: Overall: 171.5 x 99.7 cm (67 ½ x 39 ¼ in.) Medium: hanging scroll (framed), ink and color on paper

https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.352

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Blessing for Imam Husayn, calligraphic composition, Muhammad Qazwini, 1884, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet Size: 29.8 x 43.7 cm (11 3/4 x 17 3/16 in.) Medium: Ink, gold and silver on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/201366

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Red Cliff Ode, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia Size: 33.6 cm (13 1/4 in.) Medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/190144

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Twenty Nō Plays (Yōkyoku nijūban), 7th of 20 Volumes, Kanze Tadachika (Kokusetsu), Early Edo period, 1625 (11th month), Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia Size: 24 x 17.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 in.) Medium: Twenty manuscript books; ink on paper, with cover paintings in gold pigment on indigo-dyed paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/92952

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Bracken Shoots (Sawarabi), Chapter 48 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari), 48th of 54 Volumes, 17th-18th century, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia Size: H. 16.5 x W. 16.3 cm (6 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.) Medium: 48th of a set of 54 thread-bound books; ink on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/93725

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One of Four Sheets of Paper inscribed with Religious Texts, Poems, Charms [mounted on a board], Kamakura period, datable to circa 1292, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial and promised gift of Walter C. Sedgwick in memory of Ellery Sedgwick Sr. and Ellery Sedgwick Jr. Size: H. 7.7 × W. 10.6 cm (3 1/16 × 4 3/16 in.) Medium: Single-sheet manuscript; ink on paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/362217

[mia-japanese-korean]

Sitting Tiger Roaring with the Wind, Style of Mori Kansai, 1883, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

seated tiger turned to PR; green floral brocade border Size: 43 ½ x 16 3/8 in. (110.49 x 41.59 cm) (image) 73 3/8 x 21 7/8 in. (186.37 x 55.56 cm) (overall, without roller) Medium: Ink and colors on silk

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/78615/