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Winter and Spring Landscape

early to mid-1400s

attributed to Tenshō Shūbun 天章周文

(Japanese)

Japan, Muromachi period

(1392–1573)

Six-fold screen, ink and slight color on paper

Image: 117.4 x 343.5 cm (46 1/4 x 135 1/4 in.); Overall: 131.4 x 381.6 cm (51 3/4 x 150 1/4 in.); Closed: 70 x 12 cm (27 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Panel: 131.4 x 62 cm (51 3/4 x 24 7/16 in.); with frame: 135.2 x 385.4 cm (53 1/4 x 151 3/4 in.)

The Norweb Collection 1958.476

Location

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Artist biography

Tenshō Shūbun

Japanese priest-painter of the first half of the fifteenth century. During his lifetime, Shubun served as an official artist for the Ashikaga shoguns and Shokokuji, the Kyoto temple at which he was a priest. He was a remarkable sculptor as well as a versatile painter of landscape, flower-and-bird, and Buddhist subjects. Along with folding screens and hanging scrolls, he is also recorded to have excecuted paintings on sliding partitions.

Provenance

Shimazu, Tokyo; component parts belonged to Osborne and Victor Hauge, Washington, D.C.

?-1958

Mrs. R. Henry [Emery May Holden] Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1958-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Sickman, L. C. S. Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections. New York: Asia Society, 1960. Mentioned: cat. no. 18, pp. 35, 63; Reproduced: p. 34 (detail)

Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. Mentioned; p. 49; Reproduced; pp. 46–47; cat. no. 43 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 278 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 278 archive.org

Shimizu, Yoshiaki, and Carolyn Wheelwright. Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi Period: an Exhibition in Honor of Shūjirō Shimada. Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University: Distributed by Princeton University Press, 1976. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 12, pp.108–117

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 376 archive.org

Lee, Sherman E, Ursula Korneitchouk, Michael R Cunningham, Ursula Korneitchouk, Cleveland Museum of Art, Japan House Gallery, Japan Society (New York, N.Y.), and Japan House Gallery. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 52-53, no. 26

Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華: 特别展: クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Reproduced: pp. 104–105, cat. no. 69

Cuningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced: p. 76, cat. no. 35

Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. Reproduced: pp. 104–105, cat. no. 32

Exhibition history

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).

Main Asian Rotation (G121). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 2003-March 12, 2004).

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).

Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984).

Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1985-February 24, 1986).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

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).

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).

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