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Seasonal Landscapes: Summer

Seasonal Landscapes: Summer

mid- to late 1500s
(Japanese, active mid- to late 1500s)
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
hanging scroll, ink on paper
Image: 63.9 x 35.7 cm (25 3/16 x 14 1/16 in.); Mounted: 154.2 x 49.5 cm (60 11/16 x 19 1/2 in.); with knobs: 154.2 x 54 cm (60 11/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1988.13.1
Location: not on view

Description

Now comprising three scrolls, this composition was originally a set of four paintings depicting the seasons. The set is among the most important of the artist’s surviving works. Each painting was executed in the gyō mode, indicating a speedy brush with rounded strokes. The terms shin (formal), sō (cursive), and gyō (semicursive), borrowed from calligraphy terminology, are terms commonly used by connoisseurs to describe brushwork in ink paintings.
  • ?–1988
    (Heisando Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1988–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華: 特别展: クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Reproduced: p. 112, cat. no. 75
    Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展: 名画でたどる日本の美= Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 33, p. 106
  • Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 21-September 3, 2017).
    Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).
    Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).
  • {{cite web|title=Seasonal Landscapes: Summer|url=false|author=Kano Hideyori|year=mid- to late 1500s|access-date=08 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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