Suōgōkyō (Gō Gorge in Suō Province)

Utagawa Hiroshige, artist

1797–1858

Suōgōkyō (Gō Gorge in Suō Province), circa 1840, Edo period (1600–1868)

Portfolio/Series title: a series of Views of the Provinces

Where object was made: Japan

Material/technique: color woodcut

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 237 x 96 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 5/16 x 3 3/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 237 x 96 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 9 5/16 x 3 3/4 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 21 1/4 x 31 1/4 x 1 1/4 in
Weight (Weight): 7 lbs

Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial

Accession number: 1928.7204

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Following her husband’s death in 1907, Sallie Casey Thayer traveled to Chicago, where she began to develop the knowledge, skills, and network of experts and dealers required for creating a significant art collection. In Chicago she first purchased Japanese woodblock prints before broadening her collecting interests in Asian art. Because Thayer kept many of the receipts from this period, it is possible to reconstruct the timeline of her buying trips in the United States and abroad. One receipt documents her purchase of Japanese woodblock prints from the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The group of images that Thayer bought from Wright includes this landscape, designed by the Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige. Its narrow format emphasizes the verticality of a waterfall and cliffs, a setting whose natural forms recall the site of Wright’s famous building Fallingwater.

In addition to Thayer’s receipt, another clue that Frank Lloyd Wright once owned this print is his personal seal. Find Wright’s seal, stamped in red ink, along the bottom margin of the print. Make your own seal using one color and several forms within a geometric shape.

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Civic Leader and Art Collector: Sallie Casey Thayer and an Art Museum for KU

Following her husband’s death in 1907, Sallie Casey Thayer traveled to Chicago in 1908 where she began to develop the knowledge, skills, and network of experts and dealers for creating a significant art collection. In Chicago, she first purchased Japanese woodblock prints before broadening her collecting interests in Asian art. Because Thayer kept many of the receipts from this period, it is possible to reconstruct the timeline of her purchases in the U.S. and abroad. One such receipt documents her purchase of Japanese woodblock prints from the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The group of images that Thayer bought from Wright includes this landscape designed by the Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige. Its narrow format emphasizes the verticality of a waterfall and cliffs, a setting whose natural forms recall the site of Wright’s famous building Fallingwater.

Tap the Web icon above and click on the link to see photographs of Fallingwater.

Tap the image above and swipe to view Thayer’s receipts from the New Gallery for a set of prints previously owned by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Exhibition Label:
"Inspired by Japan," Mar-2003, Cori Sherman
These three landscape views were in Frank Lloyd Wright’s collection before Sallie Casey Thayer acquired them and subsequently donated them to the University of Kansas. Wright’s personal seals, stamped in red ink, can be seen at the bottom margins of two of the narrow format views.