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Painting of One Hundred Themes (obverse)

late 1800s

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Korea, Joseon dynasty

(1392-1910)

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

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.)

Bequest of Gordon K. Mott 1998.286.a

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Depicting small images of various subjects became one of the most popular types of painting toward the end of the 19th century.

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

?-1955

Collection in Pusan, Korea, to Gordon K. Mott

1955-1998

Gordon K. Mott [1914-1998], Lakewood, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1998-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Kim, Chwijeong. "New Trend and Japhwabyung of Painting Circles During the Period of Modernization 개화기 화단의 신경향과 잡화병." Misulsanondan 27, vol. 12 (2008): 253-287.

Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Reproduced: cat. no. 83

An, Bora. "A Study of ‘Baeknapdo byungpung’ in the late Joseon period: Focused on the collection of Boston Museum of Fine Arts 조선 말기의 百衲圖屛風 연구: 보스턴미술관 소장본을 중심으로." Misulsayeongu 27, vol. 12 (2013): 323-351.

Jeong, Eun-ju. "A Study on the Ten Views of Hwallae-jeong Pavilion Painted by Chagang Park Gijeong [차강 박기정의 《활정십경백납도병》 연구]." Jangseogak (2018): 860-120.

Exhibition history

The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).