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Lineage Portrait of Buddhist Monks
1600s
(1644-1911)
Overall: 171.5 x 99.7 cm (67 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Gow 2003.352
Location: not on view
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The painting has remnants of a Japanese mounting, indicating that it was once kept in Japan.Description
This painting features 24 Buddhist priests, likely of several generations and members of the same temple or school. The priests are depicted with attention to individual features and appearances, dressed in their formal garments. They may represent monks of the Ōbaku school, a form of Chan (Japanese: Zen) Buddhism founded in Japan by Chinese émigré monks and their Japanese followers. The painting has remnants of a Japanese mounting, indicating that it was once kept in Japan.- Henri Vever [1854–1942], France?–2003Robert and Katy Gow, Naples, FL, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art2003–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Chang, Willow Hai. Song of Life: Chinese Art from the Gow Family Collection. Naples, FL: Naples Museum of Art, 2000. cat. no. 25Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art : [Exhibition] the Cleveland Museum of Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 9 June-20 August 2006. Cleveland, OH: The Museum, 2006. Mentioned: cat. no. 28, p. 117; Reproduced: p. 99
- Facing the Ancestors: Chinese Portraits and Figure Painting – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 12, 2019-February 2, 2020).The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
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