Buddha's Flowers: Lotus, Tokyo, 1894

Not on View

oil on board

overall: 31.12 × 23.5 cm (12 1/4 × 9 1/4 in.)

framed: 40.64 × 33.02 × 3.18 cm (16 × 13 × 1 1/4 in.)

2018.44.22

Theodore Wores (painter) American, 1859 - 1939

lower left: Theodore Wores.

Dr. A. Jess Shenson [1921-2002], San Francisco;[1] gift 1997 to William H. [1929-2020] and Abigail Booth Gerdts, New York;[2] gift 2018 to NGA.

[1] Information about Dr. Shenson is from his obituary in the Stanford Report, 6 March 2002.

[2] Per documention from Abigail Booth Gerdts provided with the gift, in NGA curatorial files.

Gerdts, William H., Dr. and Mrs.
Shenson, A. Jess, Dr.

1985: Paintings of Japan by Theodore Wores, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1985, no catalogue.

1993: Theodore Wores: An American Artist in Meiji Japan, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, no. 25, cover repro.

1998: For Beauty and For Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life, Mead Art Museum, Amherst; Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1998, unnumbered catalogue, repro.