id: 146713 accession number: 1972.160 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.160 updated: 2022-05-07 09:00:27.243000 White-Robed Guanyin, late 1200s. Attributed to Zhang Yuehu (Chinese, active 1200s). Hanging scroll, ink on paper; image: 104 x 42.3 cm (40 15/16 x 16 5/8 in.); mounted: 195.5 x 75 cm (76 15/16 x 29 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1972.160 title: White-Robed Guanyin title in original language: 白衣觀音 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1200s creation date earliest: 1275 creation date latest: 1300 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) technique: hanging scroll, ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Zhang Yuehu (Chinese, active 1200s) - artist --- measurements: Image: 104 x 42.3 cm (40 15/16 x 16 5/8 in.); Mounted: 195.5 x 75 cm (76 15/16 x 29 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1972 opening date: 1973-02-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). title: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting opening date: 1981-02-10T05:00:00 Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004). * Chinese Buddhist Gallery Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 10, 2016-August 1, 201). --- PROVENANCE (Mayuyama and Company, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1972 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1972-present date: 1972- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: As an artist, Zhang Yuehu was better known in Japan than in his own country. Here he depicted the great Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Guanyin in Chinese), enveloped by the glow of his halo and surrounded by the rocks and bamboo grove of the Potalaka Isle. The epitome of compassion, this bodhisattva is the single most popular deity in Buddhism and holds immense appeal for all Buddhists, including those of the Chan (Zen) sect. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 343 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n363 Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 66, pp. 84-85 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.160/1972.160_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.160/1972.160_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.160/1972.160_full.tif