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Returning Sails off a Distant Shore, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

Returning Sails off a Distant Shore, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

1460s to 1550s

follower of Sesshū Tōyō

(Japanese, 1420–1506)
Hanging scroll from a set of eight; ink and color on silk
Painting: 143.6 x 72.7 cm (56 9/16 x 28 5/8 in.); Mounted: 251.1 x 90.3 cm (98 7/8 x 35 9/16 in.)
Gift from the Collection of George Gund III 2015.589
Location: 235A Japanese

Did You Know?

Other paintings from the same set are in the collections of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Description

This painting and CMA 2015.590 belong to a group that was likely mounted as a pair of four-panel folding screens focusing on the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme centered on an area in southern China. This one represents the motif “Returning Sails Off a Distant Shore.” Both emulate the style of Chinese painter Li Tang (about 1050–after 1130). Some scholars believe the paintings are the work of Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506), the only Japanese painter of his day to have traveled to China.
  • Daté Family Collection
    ?–2015
    George Gund III [1937–2013], bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2015–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cunningham, Michael R., Shinʼichi Miyajima, and Yūji Yamashita. Ink Paintings and Ash-Glazed Ceramics: Medieval Calligraphy, Painting, and Ceramic Art from Japan and Korea. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no 6, pp. 33–35
    Sesshū: botsugo 500-nen tokubetsuten [雪舟 : 没後 500年特别展 = Sesshu, master of ink and brush: 500th anniversary exhibition]. Tokyo: Maihichi Shimbun, 2002. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 54, pp. 080, 257
    Longhi, Leighton R. Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019. Reproduced: p. 65, fig. 49
  • To the River's South in Japanese Painting (Japanese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 2023-June 2, 2024).
    Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 21-September 3, 2017).
    Sesshū: botsugo 500-nen tokubetsuten [雪舟: 没後 500年特别展 = Sesshu, master of ink and brush: 500th anniversary exhibition]. Kyōto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (March 12-April 7, 2002); Tōkyō National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (April 23-May 19, 2002).
    Ink Paintings and Ash-Glazed Ceramics: Medieval Calligraphy, Painting, and Ceramic Art from Japan and Korea. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 19-May 28, 2000).
  • {{cite web|title=Returning Sails off a Distant Shore, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang|url=false|author=Sesshū Tōyō|year=1460s to 1550s|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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