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Mount St. Helens Impressionist Oil Painting by Tanka [168046]

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Mount St. Helens Impressionist Oil Painting by Tanka  [168046]
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Stunning Impressionistic oil painting signed at lower right "Tanka." painting size 12.5 x 18.5" in possibly the original gilt frame about 19 x 23". Some minor wear to right extremity of frame. Original label on the frame: "Y. Tamaki & Co., Ginza Tokyo" (the rest in Japanese).
The view is of Mount St. Helens, c. 1890-1910.
The consignor's family passed on the information that the artist was a Seattle resident, but no other information was available. We could not find this artist in the Wikipedia list of Japanese artists, nor in the work on Japanese artists in the United States by Handel-Bajema, which is unindexed. Not listed in Falk.
Because the painting is in "western style", it was thought to be not attractive to Japanese art folks. Ramona Handel-Bajema noted in her excellent dissertation "Art Across Borders: Japanese Artists in the United States, 1895-1955" for Columbia University in 2012 (p9) that: "American journalist reported ... about the Japanese exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair ... the Japanese Government's decision not to include any oil paintings ... they too often aim at rivalry with western methods" (footnoted NY Times, April 23, 1893). This painting, clearly in Western style impressionism, is not in traditional Japanese style (s), and therefore was one of the reasons for not showing Japanese art at the 1893 Expo.