Women Hanging Laundry to Dry on a Balcony
at Cleveland Museum of Art
Kitagawa Utamaro
Japanese1754–1806
About
Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.
Notable works
Kiyomizu Komachi, from the series Futabagusa nana Komachi
at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Seated Beauty
at Harvard Art Museums
Lovers in an upstairs room, from Uta makura ('Poem of the Pillow'), a colour woodblock print
at British Museum
Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami
at Freer Gallery of Art
Hinakoto the courtesan
at Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Fumi Yomu Onna
at Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Hari-shigoto
at British Museum
Female Immortal
at Yale University Art Gallery
Utamakura print No. 01
at British Museum
Works in the collection
26 works
Women Hanging Laundry to Dry on a Balcony
at Cleveland Museum of Art
Kiyomizu Komachi, from the series Futabagusa nana Komachi
at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Seated Beauty
at Harvard Art Museums
Lovers in an upstairs room, from Uta makura ('Poem of the Pillow'), a colour woodblock print
at British Museum
Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami
at Freer Gallery of Art
Hinakoto the courtesan
at Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Fumi Yomu Onna
at Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Hari-shigoto
at British Museum
Female Immortal
at Yale University Art Gallery
Utamakura print No. 01
at British Museum
More by Kitagawa Utamaro in institutions
British Museum
London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, United States
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Bilbao, Spain
Freer Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
Honolulu Museum of Art
Honolulu, United States
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
San Francisco, United States
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, United States
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Manhattan, United States
Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States
Chester Beatty Library
Dublin, Ireland
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Art Gallery of South Australia
Adelaide, Australia
Guimet Museum
16th arrondissement of Paris, France
Museum of Art and Crafts Hamburg
Hamburg-Mitte, Germany
