Kabuki Actors (two parts of a triptych)
The actors are in a scene titled "Domiyoji No Ba", taken from
the Kabuki play "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami", by Takeda
Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, and Namiki Senryu. As performed at
Ichimura-za in 07-1850.
All three actors included in full triptych are; Arashi Kichisaburo
III as Hangandai Terukuni, Sawamura Chojuro V as Kakuju
Ama, and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kanshojo Michizane.
Kunisada began his apprenticeship around 1800 under the master Toyokuni (1769 - 1825) and became one of his chief pupils. the Utagawa school specialized in actor prints. Kunisada is also known as Toyokuni III. During his life, he has had a few pseudonyms, such as Ichiyusai or Gototei. In 1807 he published his first book of illustrations, and the following year, his first book of actor prints. During his lifetime, it has been estimated that he had produced more than 20,000 prints.
Utagawa Kunisada
Japanese, 1786 - 1864
Gift of Dr. Karen Hughes in Honor of Dorothy Naylor Woodbury
Minatoya Kohei
ca. 1847
woodblock print
print
Kumogakure 雲隠 (Hidden by Clouds)
From the series: Genji kumo shui 源氏雲拾遺 (Gleanings from the Cloudy Chapters of the Tale of Genji)
The kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII in red makeup as Matsugae Sekinosuke holding a knife in front of a lakeside samurai pavilion. Poem inscribed above.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Edo, Japan (1797 - 1861)
Iseya Ichibei
1845-1846
color woodblock print
24.5 x 35.5 centimeters
print
The fifth panel of a six panel composition, Furyu Mitate Rokkasen
A six-panel composition, each of which depicts an actor and a flower. The name rokkasen (containing the Chinese character for 'Flower') points to the "Six Best waka Poets" of the 9th century (= 'rokkasen'; the word contains the Chinese character for 'Song/Poem'). They are regarded as the geniuses of Japanese poetry and often were popular subject of mitate (= comparison, parody). The characters used here, however, allow another reading: a selection of six flowers.
Utagawa Kunisada
Japanese, 1786 - 1864
Jokin (1830 - 1858)
1858
woodblock print
22.8 x 35.2 centimeters
print
'The Beginning or the End," Grove Theater, 1947
“The Beginning or the End,” a docudrama about the development of the first atomic bombs, was a big attraction at the Grove Theater in Oak Ridge in March 1947.
Ed Westcott
American, 1922 - 2019
Ed Westcott was the official US Army photographer of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee site for the Manhattan Project. Westcott went to work for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1941. The following year he became the official government photographer of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in Oak Ridge. Among the first in the new secret city, Ed shot thousands of photos documenting the construction and operations, as well as the lives and times of Oak Ridgers from the beginning.
Westcott shot hundreds of exposures and processed over 5,000 prints before the war even ended. The National Archives is the repository for all of Westcott's negatives and offers an extensive collection of his photos from the period.
After the war, Westcott stayed in Oak Ridge as an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), until he was transferred to AEC headquarters in 1966. Westcott retired in 1977. He passed away on March 29, 2019 at the age of 97.
United States Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Office, Photography Archives
1947
archival inkjet print
photograph
“- You know my dear, you'll never believe this, but I think I would love to have some horse-meat for dinner tonight! - There we go.... my wife must be pregnant!,” plate 1 from Ces Bons Bourgeois
Honore Daumier
French, 1808-1879
Ewing Gallery Purchase with funds from the Charles I. and Blanche Barber Fine Arts Fund
1856
lithograph
print
#14
Clover Vail
American, b. 1939
Gift of the artist
2015
ballpoint pen on wood panel
10 x 18 inches
painting