id:			145418
accession number:	1970.69
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.69
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View of West Lake, 1700s. Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723-1776). Hanging scroll: ink and light color on paper; overall: 170 x 140.2 cm (66 15/16 x 55 3/16 in.); painting only: 64.2 x 133.1 cm (25 1/4 x 52 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1970.69

title:				View of West Lake
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creation date:			1700s
creation date earliest:		1740
creation date latest:		1776
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	hanging scroll: ink and light color on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723-1776)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 170 x 140.2 cm (66 15/16 x 55 3/16 in.); Painting only: 64.2 x 133.1 cm (25 1/4 x 52 3/8 in.)
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	inscription:	upper right: inscription and signature, two seals of artist.
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1970
	opening date:   1971-02-10T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1970</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).

	title:		Masterworks of Wood: China and Japan
	opening date:   1976-11-04T05:00:00
	<i>Masterworks of Wood: China and Japan</i>. 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
	<i>Visions of Landscape: East and West</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

	title:		Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting
	opening date:   1985-10-01T04:00:00
	<i>Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting</i>. 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
	<i>Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1993-March 6, 1994).

	title:		The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art
	opening date:   2011-03-27T00:00:00
	<i>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland Museum of Art, (3/27-8/28/11); "The Lure of Painted Poetry" cat. no. 21

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PROVENANCE

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West Lake near Hangzhou, China, was a place favored by the Korean and Japanese elite, even though they had never been there. West Lake is legendary for famous Chinese poets: Tang poet Bai Juyi (772–846) and Song scholar Su Shi (1037–1101) lived in its vicinity, and the Song poet Lin Bu (967–1028) led a reclusive life, having cranes and plum blossoms as his only companions on Solitary Hill near the lake. Landscape paintings of West Lake gained in popularity in Japan as early as the Muromachi period. In the Edo period, Ike Taiga, a founding literati painter, challenged himself to depict West Lake in hanging scroll format by transforming an image from a 1633 Chinese woodblock print, <em>Tianxia mingshan tu</em> (Famous Mountains in China) for this work.
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