Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010015About the Artwork
Okyo was the most influential painter and teacher of his time in Kyoto. His mastery of brush and ink found expression in a variety of Chinese and Japanese subjects, painting styles, and formats. This depiction of a heron on a willow branch is done in a classical Japanese painting (yamato-e) style, utilizing flat areas of colorful pigments set against an expansive background with little or no spatial depth.
Provenance
?–1997: Severance A. [1895–1985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903–1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1997–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Maruyama Ōkyo (Japanese, 1733–1795)
- Date
- late 1700s
- Medium
- Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, lacquer, and gold on silk
- Dimensions
- Image: 69.4 x 185 cm (27 5/16 x 72 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
- Accession no.
- 1997.108
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