Tiger Family

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

Museum

Tiger Family

early 1800s

ArtistKishi Ganku (Japanese, 1749/56–1838)

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Medium: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Image: 164.8 x 362.5 cm (64 7/8 x 142 11/16 in.); Including mounting: 179.4 x 384.8 cm (70 5/8 x 151 1/2 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

?–1983

(Fugendo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1983–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. OH

Source provenance text

(Fugendo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. OH

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Exhibitions

Public

The Year in Review for 1983

Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen

Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018

Source exhibition text

The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984). Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984). Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15, 2017-January 2, 2018).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

By the time this self-taught painter reached his thirties, his paintings were keenly sought after by Kyoto’s sophisticated patrons, including members of the imperial family. Judging from the surviving works, his supporters delighted in the colorful, auspicious imagery of Chinese historical figures, blossoming plum trees, cranes, peacocks, roosters, and especially tigers. Kishi Ganku was originally from the coastal town of Kanazawa, but relocated to Kyoto to work for the Arisugawa family. His work incorporates stylistic elements from the Kano school, the Maruyama school, and works by the Chinese artist Shen Nanping (1682–1760).

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 4 structured exhibitions.

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