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Cucumber and Eggplants
by Yamada Dōan
About the Artwork
Still lifes appear frequently in Western painting. This is not the case in East Asian painting traditions. Nevertheless, Zen monastic communities in medieval Japan did like the subject because its outward, "simple" appearance camouflaged the skills required to portray the subject convincingly.
Exhibition history
The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983). Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1985-February 24, 1986).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Yamada Dōan (Japanese, d. 1571)
- Date
- 1500s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: 28 x 44 cm (11 x 17 5/16 in.); Mounted: 114.9 x 63.5 cm (45 1/4 x 25 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1982.11
Provenance
?–1982: (Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1982–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00010064
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