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Buddhist Deities

Buddhist Deities

1700s–1800s
(1392–1910)
Four-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk
Painting only: 114 x 115.2 cm (44 7/8 x 45 3/8 in.); Overall: 147.5 x 123.8 cm (58 1/16 x 48 3/4 in.)
Gift of Mitsuru Tajima in memory of Robert P. Bergman 1999.119
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This painting is a fragment of a much larger banner painting.

Description

This painting is a fragment of a much larger banner painting, now preserved by mounting on a four-panel continuous folding screen. On the back are Buddhist sutra pages, with text written in gold ink on indigo dyed paper.
  • ?–1999
    Mitsura Tajima, Tokyo, Japan, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1999–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Contemporary German Painting Acquired by CMA,” June 9, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Kim, Chang-kyun. "Study on 17th and 18th-Century Large Buddhist Paintings of Buddha's Sermon on Vulture Peak [조선시대 17-8세기 靈山會掛佛圖 연구]." Kangjwa misulsa (2009): 83-113. www.dbpia.co.kr
    Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and 국외소재문화재재단. The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Edited by An Min-hŭi. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 166-169, no. 108
  • Japanese and Korean Gallery Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 6, 2015-January 4, 2016).
  • {{cite web|title=Buddhist Deities|url=false|author=|year=1700s–1800s|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.119