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White-Robed Guanyin

白衣觀音

late 1200s

attributed to Zhang Yuehu 張月壺

(Chinese, active 1200s)

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Hanging scroll, ink on paper

Image: 104 x 42.3 cm (40 15/16 x 16 5/8 in.); Mounted: 195.5 x 75 cm (76 15/16 x 29 1/2 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1972.160

Location

not on view

Description

As an artist, Zhang Yuehu was better known in Japan than in his own country. Here he depicted the great Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Guanyin in Chinese), enveloped by the glow of his halo and surrounded by the rocks and bamboo grove of the Potalaka Isle. The epitome of compassion, this bodhisattva is the single most popular deity in Buddhism and holds immense appeal for all Buddhists, including those of the Chan (Zen) sect.

Provenance
?-1972
(Mayuyama and Company, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1972-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1972-present
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 343 archive.org
Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. Reproduced: cat. no. 66, pp. 84-85
Exhibition history

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).

Chinese Buddhist Gallery Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 10, 2016-August 1, 201).

Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.160