The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 27, 2020

Ivy Lane

蔦の細道図屏風

1700s

Fukae Roshū 深江蘆舟

(Japanese, 1699-1757)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Six-panel folding screen; ink and color on gilded paper

Image: 133.1 x 267.6 cm (52 3/8 x 105 3/8 in.); Overall: 136.5 x 271 cm (53 3/4 x 106 11/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1954.127

Location

not on view

Description

In an episode from the tenth-century classic The Tales of Ise, a courtier exiled from the capital happens upon a Buddhist priest on an ivy-covered pass on Mount Utsu, a homonym for “Melancholy Mountain.” He entrusts the priest with a letter to a former lover in the capital whom he laments he can no longer see, even in dreams.

Inscriptions

Inscription

round, red seal (Ro-shu) at left.

Provenance
T. Hara, Yokohama, Japan
?-1954
(Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1954-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 922 archive.org
The Human Image: A Commemorative Catalogue for the Opening of Cullinan Hall, October 10 Through November 23, 1958. Houston, Tex: Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, 1958. Reproduced: cat. no. 18, fig. 18
Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. Tokyo: Makoto Nakao, 1962. Reproduced: cat. no. 83, p. 84
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 282 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 282 archive.org
Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections II; An Offering of Treasures Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of Asia House Gallery. [New York]: Distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1970. Reproduced: cat. no. 18a, pp. 32-34
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 381 archive.org
Van der Marck, Jan. In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship. Miami, Fla., U.S.A.: The Center, 1984. Reproduced: cat. no. 67, pp. 62-63, 240
Cleveland Museum of Art. Tōyō kaiga no seika: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara : tokubetsuten. 1998. Reproduced: p. 126-127, cat. no. 83
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Michael R. Cunningham. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced: p. 44-45
Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. Reproduced: p. 126-127, cat. no. 42
Exhibition history

The Human Image. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (October 10-November 23, 1958).

Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections. The Asia Society, New York, NY (spring 1960).

In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship. Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL (January 12-April 22, 1984).

Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961).

Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 23-May 8, 1977).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984).

Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1993-March 6, 1994).

Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).

Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).

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