id: 152448
accession number: 1985.275
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Lover's Visit, 1680-1730. Tamura Suio (Japanese). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; image: 50.4 x 82.2 cm (19 13/16 x 32 3/8 in.); overall: 155.2 x 97.7 cm (61 1/8 x 38 7/16 in.); with knobs: 155.2 x 104.7 cm (61 1/8 x 41 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.275
title: Lover's Visit
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creation date: 1680-1730
creation date earliest: 1680
creation date latest: 1730
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creditline: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
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culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique: hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
department: Japanese Art
collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Tamura Suio (Japanese) - artist
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measurements: Image: 50.4 x 82.2 cm (19 13/16 x 32 3/8 in.); Overall: 155.2 x 97.7 cm (61 1/8 x 38 7/16 in.); with knobs: 155.2 x 104.7 cm (61 1/8 x 41 1/4 in.)
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inscription: artist's signature and seal, lower right corner.
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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
A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).
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: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00
Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Nara National Museum, Japan (2/21-3/29/98); Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo (4/28-6/21/98) "Highlights of Asian Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art" p 141, cat. no. 94
Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005. "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections".
The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/28/2009 - 08/30/2009); "Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art"
Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). Tokyo National Museum (1/15/2014 - 2/23/2014) and Kyushu National Museum (7/8/2014 - 8/31/2014): "Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art", cat. no. 18, p. 64.
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PROVENANCE
(Hosomi, 1976); Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith.
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This celebrated work by Tamura Suio was acquired from Osaka in 1976, donated to the museum in 1985, and was included in the 1998 exhibition Highlights of Asian Paintings at the Nara National Museum and the Suntory Museum of Art in Japan. It depicts four women of fashion at leisure who are interrupted by the arrival of a young man, the lover of one of the women. Former director Sherman Lee remarked on the pictorial design of such paintings of beautiful women, explaining that "the placement of the figures and their interrelations, psychological and aesthetic, show a calculation and subtlety worthy of the great decorative masters."
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