id:			152447
accession number:	1985.274
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.274
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:26.832000

Two Beauties, late 1700s-early 1800s. Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1819). Hanging scroll, pillar painting: ink and color on silk; painting only: 104.8 x 15.5 cm (41 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.); including mounting: 175.3 x 32.7 cm (69 x 12 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.274

title:				Two Beauties
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creation date:			late 1700s-early 1800s
creation date earliest:		1770
creation date latest:		1820
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creditline:			The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	hanging scroll, pillar painting: ink and color on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1819)  - artist

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measurements: Painting only: 104.8 x 15.5 cm (41 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.); Including mounting: 175.3 x 32.7 cm (69 x 12 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	artist's signature and seal, lower right corner.  Poem inscribed on upper section of scroll.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection
	opening date:   1988-09-14T04:00:00
	<i>A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 12, 2004-April 10, 2005).

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PROVENANCE

	(David Newman, London, UK, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)
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	The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1985
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1985-
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wall description:
Shigemasa favored using colors in broad opaque masses, as seen here in the beauties’ robes. He was a painter, printmaker, and poet, specializing in courtesan and actor prints. The format of this hanging scroll or "pillar painting" allows for the work to be hung on a pillar in a Japanese home.
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