id: 151078 accession number: 1983.10 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.10 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:19.589000 Plum Tree, c. 1700. Ogata Kōrin (Japanese, 1658–1716). Hanging scroll; ink on silk; image: 94 x 35.4 cm (37 x 13 15/16 in.); including mounting: 177.2 x 51.8 cm (69 3/4 x 20 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1983.10 title: Plum Tree title in original language: 梅樹図 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1700 creation date earliest: 1680 creation date latest: 1716 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: hanging scroll; ink on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Ogata Kōrin (Japanese, 1658–1716) - artist --- measurements: Image: 94 x 35.4 cm (37 x 13 15/16 in.); Including mounting: 177.2 x 51.8 cm (69 3/4 x 20 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's signature and seal above hillock bottom right corner translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1983 opening date: 1984-02-22T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984). title: Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting opening date: 1985-10-01T04:00:00 Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1985-February 24, 1986). title: Rimpa Painting opening date: 1989-09-19T04:00:00 Rimpa Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989). 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: Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2001-07-15T00:00:00 Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). title: Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235 opening date: 2021-04-23T04:00:00 Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Later Japanese Art Rotation (Gallery 113). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 4, 2003-March 18, 2004). --- PROVENANCE (Shunichi Yabumoto Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1983 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1983– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The Rinpa style of painting is named for Ogata Kōrin, even though he did not create it. digital description: Ogata Kōrin had to think through his design carefully to create these white plum blossoms and deliver their effect, as he used the reserve technique—where selected areas of the painting surface are left unpainted—to achieve it. He probably roughed in the tree before applying an ink wash to the entire silk surface, except where he intended to place the flowers. He likely then returned to articulate the petals and, in some cases, the pistils and stamens. The composition shows the tree twisting out of view, only to return with a branch of new growth jabbing forth from an old, broken limb, thereby heightening the visual impact of the blossoms. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Turner, Evan H. "Year in Review for 1983." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38-79. page number: Mentioned: no. 230, p. 77; Reproduced: no. 230, p. 41 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159848 Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned: p. 86 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.10/1983.10_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.10/1983.10_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.10/1983.10_full.tif