id:			172574
accession number:	2015.64
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.64
updated:		2023-01-11 23:07:37.429000

White Herons in Rain, 1910s. Fujii Setsuden (Japanese). Pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on silk ; panel: 169 x 372 cm (66 9/16 x 146 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2015.64

title:				White Herons in Rain
title in original language:	雨に白鷺図屏風
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1910s
creation date earliest:		1910
creation date latest:		1919
current location:		235A Japanese
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) or Taishō period (1912-1926)
technique:	Pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and color on silk 
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Folding screen
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Fujii Setsuden (Japanese)  - artist
Fujii Setsuden (Japanese, active late Meiji period (1868-1912) -Taisho period (1912-1926))
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measurements: Panel: 169 x 372 cm (66 9/16 x 146 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018
	opening date:   2017-07-15T04:00:00
	<i>Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15, 2017-January 2, 2018).

	title:		Modern Japan (Japanese art rotation)
	opening date:   2022-10-14T04:00:00
	<i>Modern Japan (Japanese art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 14, 2022-June 18, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2015–
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fun fact:
A Kyoto-based artist, Setsuden was awarded a medal at the sixth Ministry of Education Exhibition (Bunten) in 1912 for a two-panel folding screen also featuring the theme of birds in rain.

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wall description:
In this composition, Fujii Setsuden used a color palette that borrows from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, European art movements of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pair of screens is an example of <em>nihonga</em>, or “[modern] Japanese painting.” The terms nihonga, which indicates works in ink and mineral pigments, and yōga, or “Western-style [oil] painting,” were developed in response to the rapid influx of information about European painting and culture that became available to artists in Japan from the mid-1800s. One goal of nihonga was to reinterpret Japanese styles and formats to correct for a perceived lack of relevance to modern sensibilities.
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