The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 14, 2025

A-19 Door

2000

Kyoko Murakami

(Japanese, b. 1972)
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
color aquatint
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
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."
  • ?–2002
    (Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2002–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Glaubinger, Jane, Nancy Grossman and Marjorie Williams. "Visions of Japan." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 44, no. 10 (December 2004): 4–5. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 4 archive.org
  • Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005. "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections".
  • {{cite web|title=A-19 Door|url=false|author=Kyoko Murakami|year=2000|access-date=14 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

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