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: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fujii Setsuden (Japanese) - artist Fujii Setsuden (Japanese, active late Meiji period (1868-1912) -Taisho period (1912-1926)) --- measurements: Panel: 169 x 372 cm (66 9/16 x 146 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018 opening date: 2017-07-15T04:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018. 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 Modern Japan (Japanese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 14, 2022-June 18, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2015– footnotes: citations: --- 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. digital description: 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 nihonga, 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES