Highlights one hundred of the most important works of Asian art from the collection of the museum, which began collecting Asian art, including works from Southeast Asia and the Himalayan region, as well as from China, Japan, India, and Korea, in 1913

Masterworks of Asian Art

Arts & Photography

Cleveland Museum Of Art

Cunningham, Michael R.

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

A detailed and careful chronology of fine art in Japan, published by the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Reflections of Reality in Japanese Art

LEE, Sherman E.

Cleveland Museum of Art Bookstore

The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16Th-Century Art in Japan

Catalog for October 19-December 1, 1991 exhibition. Beautifully illustrated. Covers paintings, lacquerware, textiles, and ceramics. References. Suggested Readings. Glossary. 154p. Measures 11x9 inches.

From its incorporation in 1913, one of the stated intentions of the Cleveland Museum was to form fine collections of Asian art (no such proposals related to Western art). Thanks to a series of generous donors and enlightened curators, notably Langdon Warner and Sherman Lee, Cleveland's Asian holdings are now among the finest in the West, yet they are among the least published. Consequently, this book of the museum's treasures is long overdue. More than 100 objects have been selected. They are divided into three China and Central Asia, India and Southeast Asia, and Japan and Korea, with each region introduced by a short but useful art-historical summary. A full page is devoted to an illustration of each object, with commentary reflecting the latest scholarship in the field given on the facing page. Cleveland has been lucky in the timing of its many of the Japanese objects acquired by Sherman Lee after World War II would not be allowed to leave Japan today. And the joyful Krishna lifting Mt. Govardhana (Cambodian, 6th century), one of the sculptural masterpieces of the world, has no counterpart outside Phnom Penh and could never be replaced (its lower portion was put together from fragments that had lain hidden in a Belgian garden for 40 years). The accession numbers of the objects--from a 15th-century Korean Amita triad, acquired in 1918, to recently discovered Chinese textiles that are revolutionizing the field--indicate a continuous history of discriminating collecting that is still maintained today. --John Stevenson

Cleveland Museum of Art

Czuma, Stanislaw J.

Wardwell, Anne E.

Wilson, J. Keith

Cunningham, Michael R., Rosenfield, John M., Yiengpruksawan, Mimi Hall

Buddhist Treasures from Nara

Rosenfield, John M.

Yiengpruksawan, Mimi Hall

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

This catalogue presents ink paintings and ceramics of Japan and Korea in the collection of George Gund III of the Cleveland Museum of Art. It features 25 Japanese ink paintings (suibokuga) from the 12th to the 16th century, 3 Korean paintings from the Choson dynasty, and 5 stonewares (Tokoname, Suzu, Echizen, Shigaraki and Tamba) from the Heian and Muromachi period.

Ink Paintings and Ash-Glazed Ceramics: Medieval Calligraphy, Painting and Ceramic Art from Japan and Korea

Miyajima, Shinichi

Yuji, Yamashita

Yamashita, Yuji

Painting

Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens From the Cleveland Art Museum

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