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Utagawa Kunimasa, "Woman, Cat, and Kotatsu", 1796, Woodblock print on paper, 14 3/8" x 9 5/8" (A "kotatsu" is a low wooden table covered with a cloth under which is a heating device.)
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Hopper on Burchfield: "From what is to the mediocre artist and the unseeing layman the boredom of every day existence...[Burchfield] has extracted a quality that we may call poetic, romantic, and lyric.... By sympathy with the particular he has made it epic and universal."
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