Hawk
Japan, unknown artist, Hawk, ca. 1870/1900, cast bronze, Bequest of Mrs. Blanche Hersey Hogue, public domain, 54.20
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- Title
Hawk
- Related Titles
original language: 鷹像
- Artist
- Date
ca. 1870/1900
- Period
Japan: Meiji period (1868-1912)
- Medium
cast bronze
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
9 in x 15 in x 13 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
inscription: 交義會□, cast, underside of tailfeathers Language: Japanese
- Collection Area
Asian Art
- Category
Sculpture
Decorative Art
Metalwork
- Object Type
sculpture
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Blanche Hersey Hogue
- Accession Number
54.20
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
This superbly crafted hawk is typical of the bronze sculpture made in Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912). Dramatic and highly realistic, these works were produced by artists trained at government-sponsored art academies, where the art of Europe’s Victorian age was held up as the ideal model. In turn, Japanese decorative bronzes were enormously popular with Western audiences, who encountered them at international expositions in such cities as Paris, Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis. Bronzes, along with silk, became an important source of the foreign currency to fund Japan’s modernization.
- Exhibitions
2020 Objects of Contact: Encounters between Japan and the West Portland Art Museum