Magic Garden, Aichi-ken, Japan

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Magic Garden, Aichi-ken, Japan

Artist Linda Butler (American, born 1947)

Date1987

DimensionsImage: 18 1/2 x 14 5/8 in. (47 x 37.2 cm);
Sheet: 19 13/16 x 15 13/16 in. (50.4 x 40.2 cm)

MediumGelatin-silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineFrederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund

Object number

1990.16

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Label TextIn 1986 Linda Butler began a photographic exploration of the Japanese islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, documenting the material culture, landscape, and people. A selection of her images, Rural Japan: Radiance of the Ordinary, was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in 1992. At the time of the photo’s publication Linda Butler wrote, “This two-hundred-year-old garden is located outside a private home in the historic river town of Tsushima. Unfortunately, this plot of land will be covered with concrete when a highway is built connecting Tsushima and Nagoya. When community members protested, the city agreed to move the house and the entire garden to another site.”Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.

TMA, Paper Roses: Garden-Inspired Works on Paper. Feb. 21-May 18, 2014.