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Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Landscape

1800s

Japan, Edo period

(1615–1868) or Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
Ink and color on paper
Overall: 182.6 x 74.2 cm (71 7/8 x 29 3/16 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.217
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The artist of this landscape painting follows a tradition called the Southern school (南宗画), a stylistic term used to refer to intentionally unpolished amateur painting popular across East Asia around the late 1700s and afterwards.

Description

The artist of this landscape painting follows a tradition called the Southern school (南宗画). Generally, painters of the Southern school worked with monochrome ink and light colors, emphasizing calligraphic brushstrokes.
  • ?-1915
    (Jean Lawson, New York, NY, sold to the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust as gift for the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1915-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1915.217