Rural Scene in Sussex, England
英国サセックス 農家風景
- Birth Year
- 1881
- Death Year
- 1948
- Date
- ca. 1909
- Technique, Material, Format
- oil on canvas
- Dimension
- 19.8 x 26.8 cm
- Donor name
- Mr. Kojima Yutaka (formerly owned by Kojima Usui)
- Category
- Oil or Other Painting by Japanese Artist
- Inventory Number
- 2003-OJ-001
Takeuchi Tsurunosuke was born in Goten-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama (present-day Kanagawa Honcho). After studying painting at the Hakuba-kai (White Horse Society), he went to England in 1909, where he was supported by his brother, Takeuchi Kinpei, who had become assistant manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank London branch. Tsurunosuke studied at a London fine arts school and became particularly enamored of the idyllic rural landscape of Sussex in southern England, which can be seen in this work. He painted many Sussex scenes in oil and pastel. This work once belonged to Kojima Usui, who was one year older than Kinpei and had joined the bank one year before him. Usui was an art collector, and he likely felt a strong personal connection to the work given it was made by a fellow Yokohama native who was also the brother of a colleague.
(KATADA Yuko)