id:			152562
accession number:	1985.377
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.377
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:27.658000

Buddha, 1951. Saitō Kiyoshi (1907–1997). Color woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.377

title:				Buddha
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creation date:			1951
creation date earliest:		1951
creation date latest:		1951
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creditline:			The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
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culture:	Japan, 20th century
technique:	color woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Saitō Kiyoshi (1907–1997)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		A Tradition Transformed: Japanese Prints, 1947-1987
	opening date:   1988-02-09T05:00:00
	<i>A Tradition Transformed: Japanese Prints, 1947-1987</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 24, 1988).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005. "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections".

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PROVENANCE

	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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In 1951 Saito began a series of prints based on ancient burial figures called <em>haniwa</em>, terra-cotta funerary statuettes with a charming, naïve naturalism from the 3rd to 6th century. Saito found them to "have a beauty like nudes," and using woodcut, he reproduced in prints the rough surface of the original clay Buddha. In 1985, following the death of her husband, Eleanor Smith gave the museum his collection of 198 color woodcuts by Saito, nearly the complete oeuvre of this well-known, popular printmaker.
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