id: 147930 accession number: 1974.31 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.31 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:02.825000 Birds Gather under the Spring Willow, late 1400s-early 1500. Yin Hong (Chinese, c. 1430-c. 1500). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; painting: 240 x 195.5 cm (94 1/2 x 76 15/16 in.); overall with knobs: 280 x 204 cm (110 1/4 x 80 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1974.31 title: Birds Gather under the Spring Willow title in original language: 春柳聚禽圖 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1400s-early 1500 creation date earliest: 1480 creation date latest: 1510 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: hanging scroll, ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Yin Hong (Chinese, c. 1430-c. 1500) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 240 x 195.5 cm (94 1/2 x 76 15/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 280 x 204 cm (110 1/4 x 80 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 殷宏. [印]金臺世家 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1974 opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975). 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: Sesshu, Master of Ink and Brush: 500th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 2002-03-12T00:00:00 Sesshu, Master of Ink and Brush: 500th Anniversary Exhibition. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (April 23-May 19, 2002). title: Flora and Fauna (Chinese art rotation) opening date: 2020-11-06T05:00:00 Flora and Fauna (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2020-June 6, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 16-October 28, 2003). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 28, 2014-January 7, 2015). --- PROVENANCE Marquis Yoshitaka Satake 侯爵 佐竹義理 [1858–1914] date: ?-November 1917 footnotes: citations: (Fugendo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1974 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1974- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The peahen is plucking a dandelion. digital description: wall description: This scroll depicts a spring scene with all kinds of birds, including one peacock with a hen among peonies. The painting is one of four surviving works by Yin Hong bearing his signature and seals. Some scholars debate whether this work depicts the theme “One Hundred Birds admiring the Phoenix,” a metaphor for human society presenting an idealized hierarchy under imperial rule; other scholars argue that peafowls, as exotic birds not native to China, would not be depicted to represent the emperor.

This large painting might have been hung in a palace hall and may have been part of a set depicting the four seasons. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Satake Koshaku-ke gozoki nyusatsu [佐竹候爵家御蔵噐入札 = Sale Catalogue of the Collection of the Marquis Satake Family], Tōkyō Bijutsu Club, November 3-5, 1917. page number: cat. no 46 url: Lee, Sherman E. “Early Ming Painting at the Imperial Court.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 62, no. 8, 1975, pp. 243–259. page number: Reproduced: pp. 297, 298, cover, fig. 18. url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152602 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. 348 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n368 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. 124, p. 148 url: Barnhart, Richard M., Mary Ann Rogers, and Richard Stanley-Baker. Painters of the Great Ming: The Imperial Court and the Zhe School. Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 97, fig. 46 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 92-93 url: Sung, Hou-Mei. “The Three Yin Masters of the Ming Court: Yin Shan, Yin Xie and Yin Hong.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 58, no. 1/2, 1998, pp. 91–113. page number: Reproduced: fig. 6, p. 102 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249996 Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, and New York Botanical Garden. Chinese Peony Exhibition: May 5-June 4, 2000 in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Bronx, NY: The Garden, 2000. page number: Reproduced: cover url: Sesshū: botsugo 500-nen tokubetsuten [雪舟 : 没後 500年特别展 = Sesshu, master of ink and brush: 500th anniversary exhibition]. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 2002. page number: cat. no. 43 url: Sayre, Henry M. Cave Paintings to Picasso: The Inside Scoop on 50 Art Masterpieces. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 46 url: Stokstad, Marilyn, David Cateforis, and Stephen Addiss. Art History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005. page number: Reproduced: fig. 21-4 url: Schoeser, Mary. Silk. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. page number: Reproduced: pp. 90-91 url: Stokstad, Marilyn, and Michael Watt Cothren. Art History. Boston, MA: Pearson2014. page number: Reproduced: fig. 25-4, p. 798 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 233-236 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.31/1974.31_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.31/1974.31_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.31/1974.31_full.tif