Cleveland Museum of Art
Snow Landscape
Yosa BusonLinkedCulture matchlcp-daf837384ba8
- Date
- mid-1770s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 159739
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In this painting, the mountains and sky glow with a hidden warmth from undertones in red as birds descend into the trees around a scholar’s retreat. Yosa Buson is recognized in Japanese literary history as one of the country’s greatest poets, but he was also an accomplished, self-taught painter. His style changed over the course of his career. Initially painting with precise brushwork, he gradually developed a freer style like the one he used in this snowscape. One of the artist's seals reads: "flung ink gives life to brush lines."
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
- Provenance
- ?–1997: Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1997–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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