id:			159733
accession number:	1997.108
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.108
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Heron on a Willow Branch, late 1700s. Maruyama Ōkyo (Japanese, 1733–1795). Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, lacquer, and gold on silk; image: 69.4 x 185 cm (27 5/16 x 72 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.108

title:				Heron on a Willow Branch
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creation date:			late 1700s
creation date earliest:		1775
creation date latest:		1799
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creditline:			Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, lacquer, and gold on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Folding screen
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Maruyama Ōkyo (Japanese, 1733–1795)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 69.4 x 185 cm (27 5/16 x 72 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Unfolding Beauty:  Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2001-07-15T00:00:00
	<i>Unfolding Beauty:  Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>The Fragrance of Ink: Chinese and Japanese Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. A. Dean Perry. </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 19-August 3, 1997).

* <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-July 13, 2004).

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PROVENANCE

	Severance A. [1895–1985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903–1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1997
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1997–
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wall description:
Okyo was the most influential painter and teacher of his time in Kyoto. His mastery of brush and ink found expression in a variety of Chinese and Japanese subjects, painting styles, and formats. This depiction of a heron on a willow branch is done in a classical Japanese painting (<em>yamato-e</em>) style, utilizing flat areas of colorful pigments set against an expansive background with little or no spatial depth.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Toyomune Minamoto 源豊宗, and Hiroyuki Kano 狩野博幸. <em>Maruyama Ōkyo gashū </em>円山應擧画集. Kyōto-shi: Kyōto Shinbunsha, 1999.
	page number: 	cat. no. 15, p. 31
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	Cunningham, Michael R. <em>Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 54-55. Cat. no. 24
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	Koyama-Richard, Brigitte. <em>Animaux Dans La Peinture Japonaise</em>. Lyon: Nouvelles éditions Scala, 2020.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 208–209
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IMAGES

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