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Provenance: Journeys of Korean Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland, United States · 10 May 2026 to 25 Apr 2027

On nowConfirmed 31 Aug 2026, 2 weeks agoFrom the museum's own page

How the Korean objects reached Cleveland, told acquisition by acquisition: a folding screen a king gave his American tutor, an Amitabha triad found by a curator in a pawn shop, a court portrait bought in 1960s Seoul by a Danish doctor. Gallery 236.

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