Illustrated catalogue of the important collection of paintings, water colors, pastels, drawings and prints collected by the Japanese connoisseur the late Tadamasa Hayashi of Tokyo, Japan, chief commissioner for the Japanese goverment to the exhibition universelle, Paris, 1900
This 1913 New York sale catalogue from the American Art Association lists the collection of Tokyo connoisseur Tadamasa Hayashi, assembled for Western buyers and formerly owned by Charles Lang Freer. The pages are reproduced as sepia photographic plates, each showing a single landscape painting rotated sideways on the page with a plate number in the margin. The misty trees, riverbanks and soft wash tonalities suggest loose, atmospheric landscape composition a designer could study for tonal layering and quiet negative space.
