Provenance · Acquisition fund
Kelvin Smith
This catalog gathers 17 public-domain works acquired through the Kelvin Smith fund. Every work is held by Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Landscapes -
Chinese Beauty -
Landscape in the Style of Ching Hao -
Ten Thousand Bamboos in the Mist and Rain -
Landscape -
Beauty (Bijin) in the Snow -
Monkeys -
Demon Intoning the Name of the Buddha -
River Village in High Summer -
Ghost and Oil Lamp -
Owl -
Mt. Fuji through Pines -
Landscape in the Style of Chao Yuan -
Beauty (Bijin) -
The Sand-Carrying Festival (Sunamochi Matsuri) -
Operating on Guan Yu's Arm -
Frosted Branches and Dwarf Bamboo, in the Style of Su Shi
On provenance & the public domain
A credit line — the small "Acquisition fund of…" note beside a work on a museum wall — records its provenance: how the object passed from a private hand into a public collection, whether as an outright gift, a bequest left in a will, the purchase from a named endowment, or an entire collection acquired at once. Because these works are in the public domain, anyone can study, share, and reproduce them freely. Browsing by provenance follows the human story behind a museum's holdings — the collectors and benefactors whose generosity put these works where the public can see them.
Every work in this catalog is in the public domain; images come from the museums that hold them.