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Landscape of the Four Seasons

Yi SumunLinkedCulture matchlcp-8dcf9374aae9

Date: late 1400s
Medium: One of a pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper
Culture: Korea, Joseon period (1392–1910) or Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Department: Korean Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 148854

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Yi Sumun is believed to have been a Korean painter who migrated to Japan in 1424 at the age of 20. This pair of screens is the artist’s most important composition in this format. Viewed from right to left, the screens show the passage of the four seasons, a popular theme in medieval Japanese ink painting. Yi Sumun is believed to have been a 15th-century Korean man who moved to Japan at age 20 and became an influential landscape painter in Japan.

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Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Provenance: ?–1976: (Victor L. Hauge [1919–2013], Falls Church, VA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1976-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, -present