id: 128950 accession number: 1951.540 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.540 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:21.421000 White-Robed Kannon (Byakue Kannon), c. 1200. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; image: 91.4 x 45.1 cm (36 x 17 3/4 in.); overall: 178.4 x 64.1 cm (70 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1951.540 title: White-Robed Kannon (Byakue Kannon) title in original language: 白衣観音像 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1200 creation date earliest: 1190 creation date latest: 1210 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333) technique: hanging scroll; ink on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 91.4 x 45.1 cm (36 x 17 3/4 in.); Overall: 178.4 x 64.1 cm (70 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 箱書　石座観音　高山寺舊蔵 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Tea Taste in Japanese Art opening date: 1963-02-20T05:00:00 Tea Taste in Japanese Art. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 20-April 21, 1963). title: Japanese Master Drawings opening date: 1975-02-08T05:00:00 Japanese Master Drawings. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (February 8-March 9, 1975). title: Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting opening date: 1985-10-01T04:00:00 Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1985-February 24, 1986). title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). title: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation opening date: 2018-07-11T04:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 11, 2018-January 7, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-November 17, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2004-07-13T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1951 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1951- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “A White-Robed Kwannon from Kōzan-Ji.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 39, no. 10, 1952, pp. 235–237. page number: Mentioned: pp. 235–237 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141839 Lee, Sherman E. "Shin and Sō." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 43, no. 6 (1956): 115-18. page number: Mentioned: p. 116 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142133 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 917 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n162 Lee, Sherman E. Tea Taste in Japanese Art. New York, NY: The Asia House Gallery, dist. by H. Abrams, 1963. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 8, p. 96; Reproduced: cat. no. 8, p. 22 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 277 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n301 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 276 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n300 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 372 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n392 Lee, Sherman E, Ursula Korneitchouk, Michael R Cunningham, Ursula Korneitchouk, Cleveland Museum of Art, Japan House Gallery, Japan Society (New York, N.Y.), and Japan House Gallery. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 44-45, no. 21 url: Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 83, cat. no. 52 url: Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 32 url: Vilbar, Sinead. "The Japanese Art Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1915-1951." In Great Waves & Mountains: Perspectives and Discoveries in Collecting the Arts of Japan. Natsu Oyobe, and Allysa B. Peyton, eds., 160-197. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2022. page number: Mentioned: P. 184; Reproduced: P. 186, fig. 7.21 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.540/1951.540_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.540/1951.540_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.540/1951.540_full.tif