The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 23, 2023

A-19 Door

2000

Kyoko Murakami

(Japanese, b. 1972)

Japan, Heisei period

(1989-2019)

Color aquatint

Support: Wove paper

Sheet: 72.8 x 60.3 cm (28 11/16 x 23 3/4 in.); Platemark: 55.4 x 49.9 cm (21 13/16 x 19 5/8 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ward Collection Fund 2002.100

Edition: 25

Location

not on view

Description

The artist explains, "Each of us is snug in an individual vaporous cloak, but there should be no sense of isolation and loneliness. We are separate but not alienated from one another."

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower margin, in graphite: 9/25 door Kyoko 2000

Provenance
?–2002
(Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
2002–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history

Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005. "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections".

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2002.100