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: Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections
opening date: 2004-12-12T00:00:00
Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2004-April 10, 2005).
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: 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
* {'description': 'Ukiyo-e Shuei [Collection of Ukiyo-e Painting]. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (1923).', 'opening_date': '1923-01-01T05:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
Takeoka Toyota 武岡豐太 [1864–1931], Kobe, Japan
date: ? by 1923–?
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(Hosomi, Osaka, Japan, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)
date: ?–1976
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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: 1976–1985
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1985–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Kyōto Teishitsu Hakubutsukan 京都帝室博物館. Ukiyo-E Shūei: Tokubetsu Tenran 浮世繪聚英. Kyoto: Benridō, 1923.
page number: no. 2
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Kokka 國華 vol. 37, no. 435 (1927).
page number: Reproduced: pl. VI
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Okada Saburōsuke 岡田三郎助, Rinpū Sasagawa 笹川臨風, and Yoneame Iizuka 飯塚米雨,. Nihonga taisei 日本畫大成. Vol. 40 Nikuhitsu ukiyoe 肉筆浮世繪. Tōkyō: Tōhō Shoin 東方書院, 1931–34.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 138
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“Checklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 7 (September 1988): 292–295.
page number: Mentioned: p. 294
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160040
Jenkins, Donald. “Paintings of the Floating World.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 7 (September 1988): 244–278.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 258–259, fig. 12; Reproduced: p. 238
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160038
Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 220–221
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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. 141, cat. no. 94
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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. 104
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Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展: 名画でたどる日本の美= Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014.
page number: cat. no. 18, p. 64
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IMAGES
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