id: 135487 accession number: 1958.476 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.476 updated: 2024-04-25 14:35:58.408000 Winter and Spring Landscape, early to mid-1400s. Attributed to Tenshō Shūbun (Japanese). Six-fold screen, ink and slight color on paper; image: 117.4 x 343.5 cm (46 1/4 x 135 1/4 in.); overall: 131.4 x 381.6 cm (51 3/4 x 150 1/4 in.); closed: 70 x 12 cm (27 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.); panel: 131.4 x 62 cm (51 3/4 x 24 7/16 in.); with frame: 135.2 x 385.4 cm (53 1/4 x 151 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1958.476 title: Winter and Spring Landscape title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early to mid-1400s creation date earliest: 1423 creation date latest: 1460 current location: creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573) technique: six-fold screen, ink and slight color on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Tenshō Shūbun (Japanese) - artist Japanese priest-painter of the first half of the fifteenth century. During his lifetime, Shubun served as an official artist for the Ashikaga shoguns and Shokokuji, the Kyoto temple at which he was a priest. He was a remarkable sculptor as well as a versatile painter of landscape, flower-and-bird, and Buddhist subjects. Along with folding screens and hanging scrolls, he is also recorded to have excecuted paintings on sliding partitions. --- measurements: Image: 117.4 x 343.5 cm (46 1/4 x 135 1/4 in.); Overall: 131.4 x 381.6 cm (51 3/4 x 150 1/4 in.); Closed: 70 x 12 cm (27 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Panel: 131.4 x 62 cm (51 3/4 x 24 7/16 in.); with frame: 135.2 x 385.4 cm (53 1/4 x 151 3/4 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: 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: 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: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00 Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi period: An exhibition in honor of Shūjirō Shimada. The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (April 25–June 13, 1976).', 'opening_date': '1976-06-13T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (G121). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 2003-March 12, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-10-26T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Shimazu, Tokyo; component parts belonged to Osborne and Victor Hauge, Washington, D.C. date: footnotes: citations: Mrs. R. Henry [Emery May Holden] Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1958 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1958- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sickman, L. C. S. Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections. New York: Asia Society, 1960. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 18, pp. 35, 63; Reproduced: p. 34 (detail) url: Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. page number: Mentioned; p. 49; Reproduced; pp. 46–47; cat. no. 43 url: https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDecorativeStyle/page/n59 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. 278 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n302 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. 278 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n302 Shimizu, Yoshiaki, and Carolyn Wheelwright. Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi Period: an Exhibition in Honor of Shūjirō Shimada. Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University: Distributed by Princeton University Press, 1976. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 12, pp.108–117 url: 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. 376 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n396 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. 52-53, no. 26 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: Reproduced: pp. 104–105, cat. no. 69 url: Cuningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 76, cat. no. 35 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. 104–105, cat. no. 32 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.476/1958.476_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.476/1958.476_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.476/1958.476_full.tif