The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Deep Mountain Stream

2001

Minol Araki

(Japanese, 1928–2010)
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
Ink on paper (unmounted)
Overall: 46.7 x 61.8 cm (18 3/8 x 24 5/16 in.)
Gift of David Tausig Frank and Kazukuni Sugiyama 2016.305
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The artist's signature, seal, and the date “’01” are in the bottom right corner of the painting.

Description

This abstracted ink landscape, with its dramatic mountain stream, is captured with a bird’s-eye view. It was produced late in the career of the artist, whose oeuvre includes landscapes, bird-and-flower and figure paintings in ink and sometimes bright colors. An industrial designer by profession, Araki’s landscapes reveal his personal devotion to traditional Chinese brush methods, learned first as a youth in China, and later through emulation of famed painter Zhang Daqian (1899–1983) in Taiwan.
  • -2016
    David Tausig Frank and Kazukuni Sugiyama, Santa Fe, NM, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2016-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2016.305