id:			447699
accession number:	2021.152.22
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.152.22
updated:		2023-08-24 01:47:27.395000

Haiga Portfolio: The sound of a cracked temple bell is also hot under a summer moon, 1966–67. Stanton Macdonald-Wright (American, 1890–1973), printed by Clifton Karhu (American, 1927–2007). Color woodcut; image: 40.7 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.); sheet: 46 x 55.2 cm (18 1/8 x 21 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Stanton and Jean Macdonald-Wright 2021.152.22

title:				The sound of a cracked temple bell is also hot under a summer moon
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series:				Haiga Portfolio
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creation date:			1966–67
creation date earliest:		1966
creation date latest:		1967
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creditline:			Gift of the Estate of Stanton and Jean Macdonald-Wright
copyright:			

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culture:	America
technique:	color woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Stanton Macdonald-Wright (American, 1890–1973)  - artist

* Clifton Karhu (American, 1927–2007)  - printer
Works in "Sosaku hangu" style, making woodblock prints of typical Japanese scenes, often old Japanese houses or details taken from old houses, especially those of Kyoto.
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measurements: Image: 40.7 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.); Sheet: 46 x 55.2 cm (18 1/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
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edition of the work: 	edition of 50

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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Red ink stamp, recto, lower left
	translation:	
	remark:		

	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "20.  The sound of a cracked temple bell is also hot under a summer moon. Hokuski 7/50 1966-67"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Stanton Macdonald-Wright (the artist) [189-1973]
	date: 1967–73
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	(Macdonald-Wright Estate)
	date: 1973-2021
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: September 6, 2021
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fun fact:
The artist wrote of the works in this portfolio: “I have attempted to pictorialize these haiku psychologically and thus complete the verses by making the illustrations as modern as the verses will always remain.”

digital description:
Modernist painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright developed the <em>Haiga Portfolio</em> out of his admiration for <em>haiga</em>, the traditional art of haiku illustration. Produced in Japan using the traditional Japanese printmaking technique (ukiyo-e), the artist challenged the typically minimalist, black-and-white approach to haiku illustration. While many of the works in the portfolio employ the lively colors and patterns of Synchromism—an art movement MacDonald-Wright founded in 1910 seeking to apply color theory to music and rhythm—others are more contemplative, while still retaining a connection to abstract modernist optics.

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