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Chinese Landscape

1500s

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Japan, Muromachi period

(1392–1573)

Pair of six-fold screens; ink and slight color on paper

Image: 155.5 x 357.8 cm (61 1/4 x 140 7/8 in.); Overall: 171.5 x 373.4 cm (67 1/2 x 147 in.)

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.279

Location

not on view

Description

In a panorama of mountains and expanses of water, three gentlemen have assembled by moonlight to enjoy one another’s company away from a bustling village. An influx of ink paintings from China in both album and scroll formats beginning in the late 1200s inspired Japanese artists to create landscapes based upon Chinese prototypes. Later, Japanese painters adapted the imagery to the larger format of folding screens, which were used to define spaces in large rooms.

Provenance

Victor L. Hauge, Falls Church, VA

?-1964

Severance [1895-1985] and Greta Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, ?-1964. Given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1964-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1964-present

Citations

Cleveland Museum of Art. Tōyō kaiga no seika: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara : tokubetsuten. 1998. Reproduced: pp. 118-119, cat. no. 79

Cuningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced: cat. no. 36, p. 76

Exhibition history

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

The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).

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).

Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 11, 2018-January 7, 2019).