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Nine-Dragon Falls

구룡포 (九龍布)

late 1800s

Han Unpyeong

(Korean)

Korea, Joseon dynasty

(1392-1910)

Ink and color on paper

Overall: 71 x 40.7 cm (27 15/16 x 16 in.); Painting only: 59.4 x 28.2 cm (23 3/8 x 11 1/8 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.215

Location

not on view

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The Nine-Dragon Falls, the main subject of this painting, is about 240 feet (74 meters) high.

Description

The Nine-Dragon Falls 구룡포 is one of the popular tourist sites at the Diamond Mountain 금강산 in North Korea. Its V-shaped valley that opens into a rushing white waterfall is its major attraction, allowing visitors to experience the powerful forces of nature. In this painting, two excited scholar tourists accompanied by a Buddhist monk are enjoying both the spectacle and the roar generated by the cascading waterfall.

Provenance

?-1915

(Jean Lawson, New York, NY, sold to the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust as gift for the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1915-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Keith, Elizabeth. Eastern Windows: An Artist's Notes of Travel in Japan, Hokkaido, Korea, China, and the Philippines. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928.

Pak Un-sun. A Study of Paintings of Mt. Geumgang [금강산도 연구] . Seoul: Iljisa, 1997.

Our Land, Our True-View Landscape [우리 땅, 우리의 진경]. Chuncheon: Chuncheon National Museum, 2002.

Seon Seung-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Reproduced: cat. no. 18

Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.

Lee, So-young, Ahn Dae-hoe, Chin-Sung Chang, and Lee Soo-mi. Diamond Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art. 2018.

Vilbar, Sinead. “Triumphant Returns.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58, no. 6 (November/December 2018): 16-17. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 17.

Through the Eyes of Joseon Painters: Real Scenery Landscapes of Korea [화가의시선: 조선시대실경산수화]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2019.

Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021. Reproduced: p. 22, fig. 2

Exhibition history

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

Mountains and Rivers Beyond the DMZ – Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 21-July 21, 2019).

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구룡포 (九龍布)

Han Unpyeong

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