id: 132048 accession number: 1954.603 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.603 updated: 2025-10-30 16:49:12.955000 Irises, 1700s. Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683–1755). Pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper; painting (each): 154.4 x 360.4 cm (60 13/16 x 141 7/8 in.); mounted (each): 170.7 x 376.7 cm (67 3/16 x 148 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Norweb Foundation, 1954.603 title: Irises title in original language: 燕子花図 series: series in original language: creation date: 1700s creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1755 current location: creditline: Gift of The Norweb Foundation copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) technique: pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on gilded paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683–1755) - artist --- measurements: Painting (each): 154.4 x 360.4 cm (60 13/16 x 141 7/8 in.); Mounted (each): 170.7 x 376.7 cm (67 3/16 x 148 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Japanese Decorative Style opening date: 1961-08-30T04:00:00 Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961). title: A World of Flowers opening date: 1963-05-02T04:00:00 A World of Flowers. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (May 2-June 9, 1963). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Rimpa opening date: 1971-09-13T04:00:00 Rimpa. Japan Society Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 13-November 13, 1971). title: Rin-pa opening date: 1972-10-10T04:00:00 Rin-pa. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 10-December 3, 1972). title: Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections opening date: 1977-03-23T05:00:00 Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977). title: Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen opening date: 1984-08-01T04:00:00 Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). 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: The Legacy of Japanese Art opening date: 1996-10-01T00:00:00 The Legacy of Japanese Art. Chiba City Museum of Art (organizer) (October 1-November 10, 1996). title: Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2001-07-15T00:00:00 Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). title: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation opening date: 2019-01-07T05:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 7-July 8, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Special Loan Exhibition of Art treasures from Japan. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (September-October 1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-09-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Matsukata Shōsaku (1863-1945) date: footnotes: citations: (Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1954 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1954- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Edgell, George Harold. Illustrated Catalogue of a Special Loan Exhibition of Art Treasures from Japan. [Tokyo, Japan]: [Sanseido Press], 1936. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 91 A, B url: Lee, Sherman E. “Irises by Watanabe Shikō.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 4 (April 1955): 63–67. page number: Reproduced: pp. 64–65; Mentioned: p. 66–67 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142032 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. 924 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n163 Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 86–87; cat. no. 85 url: https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDecorativeStyle/page/n101/ 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. 283 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n307 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. 283 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n307 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. 382 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n402 Lee, Sherman E. “In Memoriam: Emery May Holden Norweb, 1895-1984.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 4 (April 1984): 130–131. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 130–131 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159859 Kanda, Christine Guth. “Watanabe Shikō’s Irises.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 7 (September 1984): 240–251. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 240–242, figs. 1–2 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159873 Chiba-shi Bijutsukan 千葉市美術館. Shugyoku no Nihon bijutsu: Hosomi korekushon no zenbō to Bosuton, Kurīburando, Sakkurā no wadaisaku : kaikan isshūnen kinen [珠玉の日本美術 : 細見コレクションの全貌と, ボストン, クリ-ブランド, サックラ-の話題作 : 開館一周年記念]. Chiba-shi: Chiba-shi Bijutsukan, 1996. page number: Reproduced: p. 184, cat. no. 153 url: Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: pp. 40–41 url: Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. page number: Reproduced: pp. 122–123, cat. no. 41 url: Vilbar, Sinéad. “Triumphant Returns: Treasured paintings on loan to Japanese museums and archaeological collections go back on display in Cleveland.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 59, no. 1 (January/February 2019): 12-13. page number: Reproduced: P. 12; Mentioned: P. 12, 13 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2019-01/page/n5/mode/2up --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.603/1954.603_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.603/1954.603_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.603/1954.603_full.tif