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The painting depicts three houses in a small village, surrounded by trees. There is a lake in the right-hand foreground of the painting. The artist signed his name with the seal of his pen name, Lao Pai (Pai the old man) on the upper left-hand corner.
Qi Baishi
Rural Village
1925 – 1935
Gift of Katsuizumi Sotokichi
1949/1.193
Primarily black and grey ink painting. Signature stamp in the lower right side of the image. Background contains mountains and a river runs from them down to the base of the image. A small hut or structure is shown next to the cliff and some trees on the left side. A figure of a person stands near the river at the base of the image.
Ōhara Tonshū (Donshū)
Mountain Hut among Pines
1831 – 1844
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern
1985/2.27
A French town, with houses along a canal or river in the foreground extends in the distance showing rooflines and towers under a blustery sky.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American (North American))
Vitré—The Canal
1893
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.435
&quot;The&nbsp;composition&nbsp;is&nbsp;classic&nbsp;for&nbsp;Chikuto&nbsp;with&nbsp;a&nbsp;central&nbsp;foreground&nbsp;grouping&nbsp;of&nbsp;trees, a&nbsp;low&nbsp;middle&nbsp;ground&nbsp;area, and&nbsp;a steeply&nbsp;rising&nbsp;series&nbsp;of&nbsp;hills.&nbsp;The&nbsp;large&nbsp;trees&nbsp;have&nbsp;curving trunks&nbsp;outlined&nbsp;by&nbsp;sinuous&nbsp;dry&nbsp;brushwork&nbsp;that&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;Chikuto trademark.&nbsp;The&nbsp;varied&nbsp;brushwork&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;foliage&nbsp;suggests&nbsp;a wide&nbsp;variety&nbsp;of&nbsp;plants.&nbsp;The&nbsp;soft&nbsp;pastel&nbsp;tints&nbsp;are characteristic&nbsp;of&nbsp;Chikuto&#39;s, reserved&nbsp;palette.&quot;<br /> <br /> <b id="docs-internal-guid-6eefd8f4-7fff-20d5-0596-42dde0727b25">Adams, Celeste, and Paul Berry. <em>Heart, Mountains, and Human Ways: Japanese Landscape and Figure Painting: a Loan Exhibition from the University of Michigan Museum of Art.</em> Museum of Fine Arts, 1983.</b>&nbsp;
Nakabayashi Chikutō
Mountain Landscape in Summer
1800 – 1849
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1982/2.56

James Williams
Aston Cantlow
1886 – 1896
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Bond
1989/1.54
Photograph of a house and trees on a hill-side with mountains and a village in the background.
Sassenage: Val du Grésivaudan: Isère
1850 – 1875
Gift of Howard and Margaret Bond
1990/2.18
This photograph depicts two figures seated at a picnic table outside a rural home.
Walker Evans (American (North American))
Robert Frank's House, Nova Scotia
1971
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Lunn, Jr., in Honor of the Centennial of The Michigan Daily
1990/2.40
This photograph is a view of a two-storey town house featuring a cast-iron façade and recessed balconies.
Walker Evans (American (North American))
529 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana
1935
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Lunn, Jr., in Honor of the Centennial of The Michigan Daily
1990/2.56

Alessandro Mastro-Valerio
(Christmas Card)
1887 – 1940
Gift of Prof. and Mrs. Alfred H. White
1940.251

Maxime Lalanne
Les Chaumières (after a painting by Van Goyen, 1633?)
1827 – 1886
Gift of Samuel P. Hayes
1973/1.774

Maxime Lalanne
Les Chaumières
1827 – 1886
Gift of Samuel P. Hayes
1973/1.775

Albert Kahn (American (North American))
House at Frankfurt a.m.
07/06/1891
Transferred from the College of Architecture and Design, 1972—Gift of the Family of Albert Kahn: through Dr. Edgar A. Kahn; Mrs. Barnett Malbin; Mrs. Martin L. Butzel
1972/2.484
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