The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 4, 2024
Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo
1668
Location: not on view
Description
Sekkei lived and studied painting in Kyoto at the Kano school studio, the center of traditional painting activity in Japan since 1500. The use of gold foil as a backdrop for the frolicking animals served a practical as well as a decorative function. Because traditional Japanese rooms had no windows, interior lighting came from portable oil lamps and wax candles, whose effects were magnified by reflective surfaces.- ?–1972(Nisaburo Mizutani, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1972–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Cunningham, Michael R. "The Japanese Painter Yamaguchi Sekkei." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 1 (1980): 2-16. Reproduced: p. 2; Mentioned: p. 2-16 www.jstor.orgCunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced: pp. 38–39
- Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 18-October 26, 2003).Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.10.2