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Flowers and Grasses
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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Flowers and Grasses

mid-1600s
Kitagawa Sōsetsu (Japanese, active 1639–50) visual detail
ArtistKitagawa Sōsetsu (Japanese, active 1639–50)
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Medium
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image: 153.7 x 329.2 cm (60 1/2 x 129 5/8 in.); Including mounting: 170.2 x 348.4 cm (67 x 137 3/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
ASIAN - Folding screen
Origin
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

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Provenance

Public
?–1968

(N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1968–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

(N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

Public
Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235

Source exhibition text

Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 23, 2020-January 17, 2021). Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 10-July 16, 2003).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Kitagawa Sōsetsu painted for the Maeda family, powerful rulers of what is present-day Ishikawa Prefecture on the central northern coast of Honshū, Japan’s main island. Screens served as room dividers and backdrops in Maeda grand residences. This composition is considered one of the artist’s masterpieces. Kitagawa Sōsetsu is thought to have been a student of Tawaraya Sōsetsu, who was in turn the student of Tawaraya Sōtatsu, the Kyoto-based master painter regarded as the creator of the style that came to be known as Rinpa. By selecting a painter of this lineage, the Maeda family consciously connected their aesthetics to those of the imperial capital as a means of proclaiming their elevated status.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.

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