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Painting Party
Kawanabe Kyōsai1880
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This lively painting depicts <em>shogakai</em>, a gathering during which calligraphers and painters created artwork in response to their patrons’ requests. Such calligraphy and painting parties were a popular topic to render in the early Meiji period. This work conveys the cheerful atmosphere of the gathering. Here, each tiny painting and calligraphy was made by an individual artist with his own seal and signature.
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- Title: Painting Party
- Creator: Kawanabe Kyōsai (Japanese, 1831-1889)
- Date Created: 1880
- Physical Dimensions: Painting only: 139 x 69 cm (54 3/4 x 27 3/16 in.); Including mounting: 221 x 97.5 cm (87 x 38 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: (David Newman, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.88
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Inscriptions: Artist's signature and seal at lower left.
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
- Accession Number: 1983.88
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