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accession number: 1979.71
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Arhat, 1235. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk; image: 52.7 x 40.6 cm (20 3/4 x 16 in.); overall: 140 x 54.1 cm (55 1/8 x 21 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1979.71
title: Arhat
title in original language: 세공양존자 (世供養尊者)
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creation date: 1235
creation date earliest: 1235
creation date latest: 1235
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
technique: Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk
department: Korean Art
collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type: Painting
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measurements: Image: 52.7 x 40.6 cm (20 3/4 x 16 in.); Overall: 140 x 54.1 cm (55 1/8 x 21 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1979
opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
title: Korea: Bridge of Culture
opening date: 1980-06-11T04:00:00
Korea: Bridge of Culture. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 11-August 10, 1980).
title: Buddhist Portraiture
opening date: 1981-04-29T04:00:00
Buddhist Portraiture. Nara National Museum, Nara 630, Japan (organizer) (April 29-June 7, 1981).
title: 日本の仏教を築いた人びと: その肖像と書 (Those Who Built Japanese Buddhism: Portraits and Calligraphy)
opening date: 1981-04-29T04:00:00
日本の仏教を築いた人びと: その肖像と書 (Those Who Built Japanese Buddhism: Portraits and Calligraphy). Nara National Museum, Nara 630, Japan (organizer) (April 29-June 7, 1981).
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: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00
Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).
title: Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment (918-1392)
opening date: 2003-10-22T00:00:00
Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment (918-1392). Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (October 22, 2003-January 11, 2004).
title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00
Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).
title: Masterpieces of Goryeo Buddhist Paintings
opening date: 2010-10-11T00:00:00
Masterpieces of Goryeo Buddhist Paintings. National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea (Republic of) (organizer) (October 11-November 21, 2010).
title: Korean Gallery 236 Rotation
opening date: 2018-07-16T04:00:00
Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 16, 2018-January 20, 2019).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 29- December 23, 2013).', 'opening_date': '2013-05-29T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Fugendo Co., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1979
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1979–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Yamato Bunkakan 大和文華館. Tokubetsuten Kōrai butsuga: Waga kuni ni shōraisareta ringoku no konjiki no hotoketachi 特別展高麗仏画 : わが国に請来された隣国の金色の仏たち [Special exhibition Korean Buddhist paintings of Koryo dynasty (918–1392)]. Nara: Yamato Bunkakan, 1978.
page number: no. 53
url:
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58–99.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 134, p. 82; Mentioned: p. 62
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667
Kikutake Junichi 菊竹淳一 and Yoshida Hiroshi 吉田宏志, eds. Kōrai butsuga 高麗仏画 [Goryeo Buddhist painting]. Tokyo: Asahi shimbunsha, 1981.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 39, 58, 146, pl. 62
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Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan 奈良国立博物館. Nihon no Bukkyō o kizuita hitobito: sono shōzō to sho [日本の仏教を築いた人びと: その肖像と書 = Special exhibition of Buddhist portraiture]. Nara: Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Shōwa 56 [1981].
page number: cat. no. 200
url:
Williams, Marjorie L. “Korean Art in Western Collections: Korean Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Korean Culture 3, no. 4 (December 1982): 4–17.
page number: Reproduced: cover and pl. 4
url:
Hanguk Gukje Gyoryu Jaedan 한국국제교류재단. Miguk bangmulgwan sojang Hanguk munhwajae 미국박물관 소장 한국문화재 [Korean Relics in the United States]. Seoul: Hanguk Gukje Munhwa Hyeopoe, 1989.
page number: Reproduced: p. 186, pl. 33
url:
Moon Myongdae 문명대. Goryeo bulhwa 고려불화. Seoul: Youlhwadang, 1991.
page number: p. 47
url:
Chung Woothak 鄭于澤. “Kōrai jidai no rakan gazō 高麗時代の羅漢画像 [Painting of Arhat in the Goryeo Dynasty].” Yamato bunka 大和文華 92 (1994).
page number: Reproduced: p. 38, fig. 7
url:
Kikutake Junichi 菊竹淳一 and Chung Woothak 鄭于澤, eds. The Buddhist Painting of Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대의 불화 = Goryeo sidae ui bulhwa]. Seoul: Sigongsa, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: vol. 1, p. 271, no. 128, Mentioned: vol. 2, p. 101
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Hanguk Gukje Gyoryu Jaedan 한국국제교류재단. Miguk sojang Hanguk munhwajae [미국 소장. 2, 호놀룰루 美術館, 클리블랜드 博物館, 시카고 美術館, 시애틀 博物館 = The Korean relics in the United States. 2, The Honolulu Academy of Arts, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Seattle Art Museum]. Seoul: Hanguk Gukje Gyoryu Jaedan, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: p. 186, fig. 33
url:
Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p. 76, cat. no. 47
url:
Kikutake Junichi 菊竹淳一 and Chung Woothak 鄭于澤, eds. Kōrai jidai no butsuga 高麗時代の仏画 [The Buddhist paintings of Koryo Dynasty]. Seoul: Sigongsa, 2000.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 271, 471, pl. 128
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Gudo wa kkaedareum ui seongja nahan 求道와 깨달음의 聖者 羅漢 [The Arhats: The Holy Men of Truth and Enlightenment]. Chuncheon: Gungnip Chuncheon Bangmulgwan 국립춘천박물관, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p. 65, no. 42
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Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p. 89, cat. no. 22
url:
Masterpieces of Goryeo Buddhist Painting [고려 불화 대전 ]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2010.
page number: Reproduced: p. 192, no. 84, Mentioned: p. 309
url:
Park, Hyewon. “Masterpieces of Goryeo Buddhist Painting.” National Museum of Korea 13 (Autumn 2010): 10.
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Jeong, Woo-taek [= Chung Woothak 정우택 鄭于澤]. “The Selection and Transformation of Chinese Buddhist painting in the Goryeo Period [고려의 중국불화 선택과 변용].” Misulsa yeongu (2011): 109–136.
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url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01791591
Kim, Jung-hee. "The Patrons and Donors of Goryeo Buddhist Paintings [高麗佛畵의 發願者와 施主者].” Kangjwa misulsa (2012): 251-284.
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url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE09054241
Chung Woothak 정우택 鄭于澤. “Miguk sojae Hanguk bulhwa josa yeongu 미국소재 한국불화 조사 연구 [Investigation Research on the Korean Buddhist Painting in the United States].” Dongak misulsahak 東岳美術史學 13 (2012): 46–47.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 15
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Pak, Eun-kyung. “About Silk and Enshrinement Practice of Goryeo Buddhist Painting [高麗佛畵의 변죽: 本地, 畵幅, 奉安에 대한 問題].” Misulsa nondan (2012): 35-65.
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url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01909570
Lyu Mari 유마리. Amita bulhwa ui yeongu 아미타불화의 연구. Daejeon: Munhwajaecheong, 2013.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 595–596, 609, fig. 6.
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 250
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Shin, Kwanghee 신광희. Hanguk ui nahando 한국의 나한도 [Arhat Paintings in Korea]. Seoul: Hanguk Misul Yeonguso, 2014.
page number: Reproduced: p. 82, fig. 36
url:
Shin, Kwang Hee. "A Sixteenth-Century Arhat Painting Commissioned by Queen Munjeong: Deoksewi, 153rd of the 500 Arhats, in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Journal of Korean Art and Archaeology, no. 9 (2015): 93-108.
page number: Reproduced: p. 100
url:
Goryeo: The Glory of Korea [대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018.
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McCormick, Sooa Im. "The Past and Present of the Korean Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art." In The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, 국외소재문화재재단, and An Min-hŭi, ed., 22-37. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 30, fig. 22
url:
Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and 국외소재문화재재단. The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Edited by An Min-hŭi. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 154-157, no. 102
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