Seasonal Landscapes: Winter (mid- to late 1500s): Art, History and Details

Seasonal Landscapes: Winter (mid- to late 1500s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Kano Hideyori (Japanese, active mid- to late 1500s).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Now comprising three scrolls, this composition was originally a set of four paintings depicting the seasons. The set is among the most important of the artist’s surviving works. Each painting was executed in the gyō mode, indicating a speedy brush with rounded strokes. The terms shin (formal), sō (cursive), and gyō (semicursive), borrowed from calligraphy terminology, are terms commonly used by connoisseurs to describe brushwork in ink paintings.

Object facts

• Title: Seasonal Landscapes: Winter
• Date: mid- to late 1500s
• Creator attribution: Kano Hideyori (Japanese, active mid- to late 1500s)
• Culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: hanging scroll, ink on paper
• Dimensions: Image: 64 x 36.1 cm (25 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.); with knobs: 152.8 x 54.9 cm (60 3/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1988.13.2

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• “The Year in Review for 1988.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30–75.
• Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華: 特别展: クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
• Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展: 名画でたどる日本の美= Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014.

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