id: 147008 accession number: 1972.41 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.41 updated: 2024-03-26 02:40:39.317000 Bodhidharma Meditating Facing a Cliff, late 1200s. China, Song dynasty (960-1279). Hanging scroll; ink on silk; painting only: 116.5 x 46.4 cm (45 7/8 x 18 1/4 in.); overall with knobs: 203.2 x 63.5 cm (80 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1972.41 title: Bodhidharma Meditating Facing a Cliff title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1200s creation date earliest: 1275 creation date latest: 1299 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Song dynasty (960-1279) technique: Hanging scroll; ink on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Painting only: 116.5 x 46.4 cm (45 7/8 x 18 1/4 in.); Overall with knobs: 203.2 x 63.5 cm (80 x 25 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Spurious artist's seal of Yan Ciping 閻次平 [c. 1163–1189]. WKH translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1972 opening date: 1973-02-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). title: The Colors of Ink opening date: 1974-01-10T04:00:00 The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974). title: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting opening date: 1981-02-11T05:00:00 Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982). 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: Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan opening date: 2007-03-22T00:00:00 Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan. Japan Society Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (March 22-June 17, 2007). title: Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2017-08-14T04:00:00 Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 14, 2017-February 5, 2018). title: Chinese Buddhist Art Rotation opening date: 2022-11-04T04:00:00 Chinese Buddhist Art Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 11, 2022-May 7, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'To-So-Gen-Min, II. Tokyo Imperial Museum, Tokyo, Japan (November 24-December 16, 1928).', 'opening_date': '1928-11-24T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-10-29T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE (Kuniyoshi Miura, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1972 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1972– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS To-So Gen-Min meigwa tai kwan 唐宋元明名畫大觀. Tōkyō: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha, 1930. page number: vol. I, 72 url: Okada, Saburōsuke 岡田三郎助, Rinpū Sasagawa 笹川臨風, and Yoneame Iizuka 飯塚米雨. Nihonga taisei 日本畫大成. Tōkyō: Tōhō Shoin, 1931. page number: Reproduced: pt. II, vol. L, pl. 52 url: Harada, Kinjirō 原田謹次郎. Shina meiga hōkan [支那名畫寶鑒 = The pageant of Chinese painting]. Tōkyō: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha, 1936. page number: Reproduced: pl. 136 url: Harada, Kinjirō 原田謹次郎. Nihon genzai Shina meiga mokuroku 日本現在支那名畫目錄. Tōkyō: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha, 1938. page number: p. 40 url: Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: Mentioned: vol. II, Lists, 89 url: Lee, Sherman E. “Zen in Art: Art in Zen.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 59, no. 9, 1972, pp. 239–259. page number: Reproduced: p. 241, figs. 4, 4a url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152451 Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. page number: cat. no. 9 url: 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 64, p. 83 url: Buswell, Robert E. Encyclopedia of Buddhism. New York: Macmillan Reference, USA, 2004. page number: Reproduced: Vol 1, A-L, p. 128 url: Toda, Teisuke 戸田 禎佑. Mokkei gyokukan 牧谿・玉澗. Tōkyō: Kōdansha,1973. page number: Reproduced: p. 175, pl. 102 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.41/1972.41_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.41/1972.41_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.41/1972.41_full.tif