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Artist/Maker
Unknown artist, Japanese
Datedate unknown
MediumSumi-e and watercolor
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 10 3/4 × 13 1/2 in. (27.3 × 34.3 cm)
Support: 15 1/4 × 15 1/2 in. (38.7 × 39.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number2024.1.2
Not on view
DescriptionBukan (called Fenggan or Feng Kan in China) was a lengendary six-foot-tall Taoist monk-poet who appeared at the Guoqing Temple on Mount Taintai in Zhejiang Province in China riding a tiger. Bukan reportedly took up residence in the library and rode the tiger around the monastery to shock the other inhabitants. The monk’s tiger-taming ability symbolically represents the power of his knowledge. Bukan is associated with Hanshan and Shide (Jittoku in Japanese), fellow poets who, like Bukan, were also monks living in seclusion at the Guoqing Temple. They are collectively known as the "Taintai Trio."
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Exhibition History
2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).
Provenance
1985: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Omar S. Pound
Unknown artist, Chinese
Date: c. 960-1279 C.E.
Medium: Ceramic with black glaze
Object number: 2016.6.2
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 5, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.310
Thomas Nast
Date: published April 22, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.322
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 20, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.324
Unknown artist, Japanese
Date: 18th century
Medium: Silk, paper
Object number: S2024.5.19
Unknown artist, Japanese
Date: 20th century
Medium: Wood with paint and lacquer
Object number: 2023.10.31
Unknown artist, Japanese
Date: c. 1877
Medium: Album with lacquered board cover containing fifty albumen photographs with hand coloring
Object number: 1992.27
Antoine-Louis Barye
Date: modeled c. 1831; first cast c. 1845
Medium: Bronze with a dark brown patina with green and black undertones
Object number: 1994.8
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 11, 1871
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.153
Helen Frankenthaler
Date: 1985 (published 1987)
Medium: Aquatint and sugar lift etching, lithograph and screenprint
Object number: 1989.13
Unknown artist, Chinese
Date: c. 618-907 C.E.
Medium: Red clay with remnants of pigment
Object number: 1994.58