Lot 603
Chinese School, early 20th c., "Traveling Shops", a collection of 24 illustrations, ink and color on paper, variously depicting a figural procession, children playing, and vendors and their wares, each inscribed, loose paper "cover" inscribed in English "Dorothy Rowe" and "Book Illustrations", each sheet 5 1/2 in. x 6 3/8 in Provenance: With Dorothy Rowe March (1898-1969); thence by descent to her daughter, Judith March Davis. Note: According to David Hogge, archivist at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, the recent biography of Dorothy Rowe March, Pagoda Dreamer, by Judith March Davis "is an absorbing tale of a bright, independent woman whose upbringing in China both contrasted to and informed her response to a later life of tragedies and hardship". Dorothy Rowe was married to Benjamin Franklin March Jr. (1899-1934), Curator of Asiatic Art, Detroit Institute of Arts (1927-1931). Dorothy Rowe March published four books on China, including a children's book titled Traveling Shops (1929). March's daughter and biographer posits that the current lot of 24 illustrations may have been submitted for that work.
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