
Calligraphy and Painting Party
1880
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 139 × 69 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-108993
In this collaborative painting, artists create works in response to patrons’ requests. Kawanabe Kyōsai painted the figures and outlines of the screens and scrolls, and 10 bunjin completed them. Each calligraphy and painting has a signature. Physician and calligrapher Nakane Hanrei (中根半嶺) (1831–1914) wrote “longevity” (壽) with an enormous ink-filled brush. Painter Fukushima Ryūho (福島柳圃) (1820–1889) did the plum on the folding screen, while Matsuoka Kansui (松岡環翠) (1818–1887) did the lotus; the two seem to be standing nearby, pointing others toward their accomplishment.
Provenance
Wade Fund, 1983.88
Registry history
- 1880 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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