Painting of One Hundred Themes (obverse)

Description

This screen depicts paintings on one side and poems on the other—an economical format often used in Korea to allow the viewer to enjoy both sides of one screen. The front features an assortment of bird-and-flower, landscape, and figural paintings executed according to the brush manner of more than 50 artists. A calligrapher has brushed several Chinese poems about the four seasons on the reverse side, among them "Composing in the Daytime of Summer" by Tang poet Liu Zongyuan (773–819) and "Composing when Spring Begins" by Song scholar Zhang Shi (1133–1180).

Provenance

Collection in Pusan, Korea, to Gordon K. Mott (?-1955); Gordon K. Mott [1914-1998], Lakewood, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art (1955-1998); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1998-)

Painting of One Hundred Themes (obverse)

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late 1800s

Accession Number

1998.286.a

Medium

Ten-panel folding screen affixed with album leaves (obverse), calligraphy (reverse), ink and color on silk

Dimensions

Image: 117.7 x 33.5 cm (46 5/16 x 13 3/16 in.); Panel: 164.5 x 43.6 cm (64 3/4 x 17 3/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Gordon K. Mott