Cleveland Museum of Art

Winter and Summer Flowers

Kaihō YūshōLinkedCulture matchlcp-41ed14934914

Date: c. 1600
Medium: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
Culture: Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)
Department: Japanese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 153736

From the Cleveland Museum of Art record

White camellias bloom behind a large pine in the right screen and blue morning glories creep through bamboo in the left screen of this composition. The mountains and bridge suggest a continuous landscape, but the paintings actually juxtapose flowers of winter and summer, with time progressing from right to left. Kaihō Yūshō painted similar landscapes for Zen temples in Kyoto. The pine and bamboo are defined by ink wash, but the flowers take form through color within contour lines.

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Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Provenance: ?–1987: (Eastern Fine Arts, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1987–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH