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Flying Liezi

Photo: Susan A. Cole

Flying Liezi

early 16th century

Six-panel screen; ink and color on paper
58 3/8 x 131in. (148.3 x 332.7cm)
Richard E. Fuller Acquisition Fund
74.18
Photo: Susan A. Cole
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Cranes: Treasures of Japanese Art, Feb. 5 - July 12, 1987.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Signs of Fortune, Symbols of Immortality, Nov. 2, 2000 - July 25, 2001.

Tokyo, Japan, Suntory Museum of Art, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, July 25 - Sept. 6, 2009 (Kobe, Japan, Kobe City Museum, Sept. 19 - Dec. 6, 2009; Kofu, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Dec. 23, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010; Atami, Japan, MOA Museum of Art, Mar. 13 - May 9, 2010; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, May 23 - July 19, 2010).
Published ReferencesOnishi, Hiroshi. "Chinese Lore for Japanese Spaces," in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 51, No. 1, Immortals and Sages: Paintings from Ryoanji Temple (Summer 1993), pp. 3-47; p. 41 (54)

Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum", 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 38

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