Summer Night; Winter Day (1784): Art, History and Details

Summer Night; Winter Day (1784) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Maruyama Ōkyo (Japanese, 1733–1795).

The work and its context

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

Ōkyo painted these panoramas in the summer of 1784. Regarded as Kyoto's most important painting teacher and accomplished artist, he had studied Western painting techniques, "realistic" sketching from nature, and traditional Japanese style painting (yamato-e). The naturalistic quality of these scenes results from a blend of detailed observation of nature and a remote, even detached regard for man's place in the world.

Object facts

• Title: Summer Night; Winter Day
• Date: 1784
• Creator attribution: Maruyama Ōkyo (Japanese, 1733–1795)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: Pair of six-panel folding screens, ink, gold, and silver on paper
• Dimensions: Overall: 154 x 362 cm (60 5/8 x 142 1/2 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1973.156

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• “The Year in Review for 1973.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31–78.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
• Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.

View the collection record

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