id: 151543 accession number: 1983.88 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.88 updated: 2022-10-29 15:32:34.280000 Painting Party, 1880. Kawanabe Kyōsai (Japanese, 1831–1889). Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; painting only: 139 x 69 cm (54 3/4 x 27 3/16 in.); including mounting: 221 x 97.5 cm (87 x 38 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1983.88 title: Painting Party title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1880 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1880 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kawanabe Kyōsai (Japanese, 1831–1889) - artist --- measurements: Painting only: 139 x 69 cm (54 3/4 x 27 3/16 in.); Including mounting: 221 x 97.5 cm (87 x 38 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's signature and seal at lower left. 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: Images of the Mind opening date: 1987-07-07T04:00:00 Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987). title: Scholar's Studio opening date: 1989-09-26T04:00:00 Scholar's Studio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 26-December 31, 1989). title: The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00 The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Later Japanese Art Gallery Rotation (Gallery 113). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 20-May 6, 2003). * Later Japanese Art Gallery Rotation (Gallery 113). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 26-December 2, 2003). --- PROVENANCE (David Newman, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1983 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1983– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This lively painting depicts shogakai, a gathering during which calligraphers and painters created artwork in response to their patrons’ requests. Such calligraphy and painting parties were a popular topic to render in the early Meiji period. This work conveys the cheerful atmosphere of the gathering. Here, each tiny painting and calligraphy was made by an individual artist with his own seal and signature. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Graham, Patricia J. "Lifestyles of Scholar-Painters in Edo Japan." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 7 (1990): 262-83. page number: Reproduced: cover, p. 271; Mentioned: p. 270-72 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161293 Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 117 url: Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 9, pp. 22-23 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.88/1983.88_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.88/1983.88_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.88/1983.88_full.tif