id: 145418 accession number: 1970.69 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.69 updated: 2025-06-10 11:10:06.487000 West Lake, mid-1700s. Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776). Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper; painting: 58 x 133 cm (22 13/16 x 52 3/8 in.); mounted: 170.5 x 140.3 cm (67 1/8 x 55 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1970.69 title: West Lake title in original language: 西湖図 series: series in original language: creation date: mid-1700s creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1776 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) technique: Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 58 x 133 cm (22 13/16 x 52 3/8 in.); Mounted: 170.5 x 140.3 cm (67 1/8 x 55 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: upper right: inscription and signature, two seals of artist. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: Masterworks of Wood: China and Japan opening date: 1976-11-04T05:00:00 Masterworks of Wood: China and Japan. Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (organizer) (November 4-December 5, 1976); Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (January 13-March 27, 1977). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). 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: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan opening date: 1993-11-16T05:00:00 Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1993-March 6, 1994). title: The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00 The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). title: To the River's South in Japanese Painting opening date: 2023-12-15T05:00:00 To the River's South in Japanese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 2023-June 2, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1970 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1970– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1970.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 2 (1971): 22–71. page number: Mentioned: no. 120, p. 60; Reproduced: no. 120, p. 69 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152361 Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 43–44, cat. no. 21 url: "Memorable Works from Yanagi Takashi." Yanagi: A Family of Art Dealers in Kyoto. Impressions: the Journal of the Japanese Society of America 46 (2025): 174–185. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 178–179, fig. E url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.69/1970.69_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.69/1970.69_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.69/1970.69_full.tif