Dragon and Tiger
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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Dragon and Tiger

c. 1546–56
Sesson Shūkei (Japanese, c. 1492–c. 1577) visual detail
ArtistSesson Shūkei (Japanese, c. 1492–c. 1577)
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Provenance

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H. Mitsui; C. Satomi.

?-1959

(Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1959-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1959-present

Source provenance text

H. Mitsui; C. Satomi. (Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1959-present

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Exhibitions

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Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961). Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977). Japanese Ink Painting. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 13-November 23, 1987). Screen Paintings of the Muromachi Period. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (March 28-May 7, 1989). Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi period: An exhibition in honor of Shūjirō Shimada. The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (April 25–June 13, 1976).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

In Chinese cosmology, dragons produce rain clouds. The dragon disappearing into and reemerging from clouds in this painting seems to generate rough waves in the water below, pulling it toward the sky. The shape of the foreground wave is indirectly sampled from a painting by 13th-century Chinese painter Yujian, a handscroll once owned by the Ashikaga military rulers of Japan. Sesson must have known the famous painting though copies, and made a copy of his own. Here, the wave reinforces the powerful quality of the dragon.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 3 structured provenance events · 7 structured exhibitions.

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