id: 140322 accession number: 1964.279 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.279 updated: 2023-03-10 19:42:51.828000 Chinese Landscape, 1500s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Pair of six-fold screens; ink and slight color on paper; image: 155.5 x 357.8 cm (61 1/4 x 140 7/8 in.); overall: 171.5 x 373.4 cm (67 1/2 x 147 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.279 title: Chinese Landscape title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1500s creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1599 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection copyright: --- culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573) technique: Pair of six-fold screens; ink and slight color on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 155.5 x 357.8 cm (61 1/4 x 140 7/8 in.); Overall: 171.5 x 373.4 cm (67 1/2 x 147 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection opening date: 1990-07-05T04:00:00 The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990). 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 --- PROVENANCE Victor L. Hauge, Falls Church, VA date: footnotes: citations: Severance [1895-1985] and Greta Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, ?-1964. Given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1964 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1964-present date: 1964- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: In a panorama of mountains and expanses of water, three gentlemen have assembled by moonlight to enjoy one another’s company away from a bustling village. An influx of ink paintings from China in both album and scroll formats beginning in the late 1200s inspired Japanese artists to create landscapes based upon Chinese prototypes. Later, Japanese painters adapted the imagery to the larger format of folding screens, which were used to define spaces in large rooms. wall description: This pair of byōbu (folding screens) bears neither signature or seals that reveal its authorship. Many such paintings were executed in Japan in the 16th-century painting studios that provided these works on commission for the country’s upper-class patrons. Paintings were ordered according to subject matter, preferred painting style, format, size, and materials. As is evident here, paper rather than silk or gold predominated as the ground for the painted imagery. Because of their size, byōbu cost more than hanging scrolls, albums, or handscrolls. The talents of skilled carpenters, metalwork and lacquer craftsmen, and mounting preparators were coordinated to provide the folding screen structure to which the painting was adhered. These byōbu served as part of the interior furnishings of a Japanese residence, temple, or government building. There they functioned as interior decor, space dividers, props for secular or religious ceremonies, or even as attractive "maps" of famous sites, both imagined and real. Here an imaginary Chinese landscape of towering mountain peaks, vast expanses of water, and deep, distant panoramas includes many activities, an assortment of buildings and seasonal and temporal references. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. Tōyō kaiga no seika: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara : tokubetsuten. 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 118-119, cat. no. 79 url: Cuningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 36, p. 76 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.279/1964.279_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.279/1964.279_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.279/1964.279_full.tif