Collection Online as of June 7, 2023

Haboku, Splashed Ink Landscape

1400s–early 1500s

Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊

(Japanese, 1420–1506)

Japan, Muromachi period

(1392–1573)

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

Painting only: 71.9 x 26.7 cm (28 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.); Including mounting: 154.2 x 37.5 cm (60 11/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

Gift of The Norweb Foundation 1955.43

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed Sesshu hitsu.

Provenance

T. Hara, Yokohama, Japan

?–1955

(Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1955–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. "Shin and Sō." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 43, no. 6 (1956): 115-18. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 115–118 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 919 archive.org

Lee, Sherman E. Tea Taste in Japanese Art. New York, NY: The Asia House Gallery, dist. by H. Abrams, 1963. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 50, p. 105

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 278 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. 278 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 375 archive.org

Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble, and Patrick Frank. Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts. New York: Longman, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 342, no. 490

Brommer, Gerald F. Discovering Art History. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 2007. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 2-21

Powers, Martin J. “The Cultural Politics of the Brushstroke.” Art Bulletin 95, no. 2 (June 2013): 312–327. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 323, fig. 8

Exhibition history

Main Asian Rotation (G121). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 2003-March 12, 2004).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 24, 2013-July 21, 2014).

Tea Taste in Japanese Art. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 20-April 21, 1963).

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).