id:			106260
accession number:	1924.350
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.350
updated:		2023-08-23 19:06:33.276000

Monkey, possibly 1700s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Wood; overall: 55.3 cm (21 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1924.350

title:				Monkey
title in original language:	猿像
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			possibly 1700s
creation date earliest:		1700
creation date latest:		1799
current location:		235A Japanese
creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	wood
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 55.3 cm (21 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Inaugural Exhibition
	opening date:   1916-06-06T05:00:00
	<i>Inaugural Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

	title:		Animals in Japanese Art (Japanese art rotation)
	opening date:   2023-06-24T04:00:00
	<i>Animals in Japanese Art (Japanese art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-December 10, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Friends of Far Eastern Art</em>. Mills College, Oakland, CA (1936).

* <em>Photography of Japanese Architecture</em>. Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH (1956).

* <em>Japanese Folk Art</em>. The Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM (1957).

* <em>Art of the Seaway Nations - Far East</em>. The East Ohio Gas Company Building, Cleveland, OH (1959).

* <em>Works of Munakata</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1960).

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PROVENANCE

	Kuroda Takuma 黒田太久馬 [1867–?], Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1924
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1924–
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fun fact:


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wall description:
Watching monkeys perform was once a popular form of street entertainment in Japan. Monkeys were outfitted with costumes and learned to perform dances and tricks. Monkeys also serve as the messengers of certain <em>kami</em>, or deities, and pairs of clothed monkey sculptures in wood or stone may be found on either side of the entrance of some <em>jinja</em>, or shrines dedicated to <em>kami</em>. This monkey has a jacket and may have once held bells and a fan. Unfortunately, its original identity and purpose have been lost.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition June 6-September 20, 1916</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
	page number: 	Reproduced: unpaginated [facing p. 191]; Mentioned: cat. no. 52, p. 196
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAInExhib_80860/page/n259/mode/2up

	Sizer, Theodore. "A Note on the Japanese Collection." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 11, no. 9 (November 1924): 174–175, and 187.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 187 (back cover); Mentioned: pp. 174–175
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25136795

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Art of the Seaway Nations</em>. Cleveland, OH: East Ohio Gas Co., 1959.
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