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Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

early 1600s

follower of Sesshū Tōyō

(Japanese, 1420–1506)
Painting: 143.7 x 72.5 cm (56 9/16 x 28 9/16 in.); Mounted: 250.8 x 90.1 cm (98 3/4 x 35 1/2 in.)
Location: 235A Japanese

Did You Know?

This painting incited robust scholarly debate in both Japan and the United States about its date.

Description

This painting and CMA 2015.589 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. The one to the left represents the motif “Returning Sails Off a Distant Shore;” to the right is “Sunset Glow Over a Fishing Village.” 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
  • Longhi, Leighton R. Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019. Reproduced: p. 65, fig. 50
  • 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).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2015.590