Artwork
Returning Sails off a Distant Shore, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
Returning Sails off a Distant Shore, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang is an unspecified painting by the Renaissance artist Sesshū Tōyō. It is held in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. This painting and CMA 2015.
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Overview
Some scholars believe the paintings are the work of Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506), the only Japanese painter of his day to have traveled to China.
This painting and CMA 2015.590 belong to a group that was likely mounted as a pair of four-panel folding screens focusing on the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme centered on an area in southern China. This one represents the motif “Returning Sails Off a Distant Shore.” Both emulate the style of Chinese painter Li Tang (about 1050–after 1130). Some scholars believe the paintings are the work of Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506), the only Japanese painter of his day to have traveled to China.
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Other paintings from the same set are in the collections of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Artist
Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟 等楊; c. 1420 – August 26, 1506), also known simply as Sesshū (雪舟; Japanese pronunciation: ), was a Japanese Zen monk and painter who is considered a great master of Japanese ink painting. Initially…
