The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection


The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection is the most significant addition to the Japanese painting and calligraphy collections of the Freer Gallery of Art since the museum’s founding. The bulk of the gift of 260 works consists of early modern literati painting and calligraphy from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, as well as modern paintings and calligraphy from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries that draw from earlier Japanese traditions. The generosity of the Cowles offers an exceptional opportunity to augment the Freer Gallery’s collections in this crucial area of Japanese art.

Objects 1 – 52 of 81

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Landscape

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Five-Character Calligraphy

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Lanting Gathering

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Waka Poem with “Heart” Character

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Oni Playing Biwa

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Solitary Pine on Winter Peaks

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Elegant Residence in the Mountain

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Enjoying the Quiet Forest

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From Looking for mountains by Tao Hongjing (456-536): “Pine under the wind makes melody”

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Copy of Summer Landscape by Buson

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Thatching the Roof

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Winter Landscape

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Letter

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Brewing Tea in the Mountain

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Pine and Crane

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Ink Landscape

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Pure Wind in Lili ・Tao Yuanming Returning Home

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Hagi Blossoms/”Near the eaves” waka

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Kappa

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Summer Afternoon

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Fox-Priest Hakuzōsu

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Zhong Kui and Demons Hunting

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Idle Conversation by Maples

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Su Dongpo in a Borrowed Hat

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Sweeping Away the World’s Dust

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Workers Traveling over the Mountain

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Quietly Watching the Ever-Flowing Water

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Farewell Poem for a Friend Traveling to China

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Daikoku by Tarōan

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New Year’s Calligraphy

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Letter to Kondō Fumitarō (1839-1918)

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Kankan: Worthy of Being Remembered (Twelve letters toTsuji Dōsen of Saami in Okazaki)

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Straight Pine, Twisted Thorny Bush

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Penglai

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Two-Line Calligraphy

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Traveling in the Snow-Covered Mountain

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Hakubyō (“white drawing”) Bodhisattva

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Dōgen

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Record on Ingen’s (Yinyuan Longqi 1592-1673) with Nyoi Scepter in the Kitayama Juan Collection

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Moon

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Rising Sun

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Red Tree in the Green Mountain

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Crows at Dusk

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Studio by Wutong Trees

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Bo Juyi Questions Zen Master Bird Nest

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Chrysanthemum

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Traveling on Horseback in Early Spring

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Silver-Colored Landscape

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Sōunkyo

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Laozi at Hangu Pass

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Landscape of Four Seasons