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Landscape of the Four Seasons

사계산수도 (四季山水圖)

early 1500s

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Yi Sumun

(Korean, b. c. 1404)

One of a pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper

Overall: 108 x 361.3 cm (42 1/2 x 142 1/4 in.); Painting only: 92.7 x 348.7 cm (36 1/2 x 137 5/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1976.92.2

Location

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Description

Yi Sumun is a Korean painter who moved to Japan in 1424 at the age of 20. Yi’s style likely represents the Yuanti school of royal court painting during the early Ming period. This pair of screens is the artist’s most important composition in this format and is smaller in scale than the average Japanese screen (byobu). Viewed from right to left, the screens show the passage of the four seasons, a popular theme in medieval Japanese ink painting.

Artist biography

Yi Sumun

Korean name, Yi Si-mun.

Provenance

?-1976

(Victor L. Hauge [1919-2013], Falls Church, VA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1976-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1976-present

Citations

Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art : Catalogue. [New York]: Japan Society, 1981. Reproduced: p. 54, fig. 27

Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. Cleveland: The Museum, 1977. Reproduced: p.92-92, fig. 1-2, Mentioned: p. 11

Williams, Marjorie L., "Korean Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Korean Culture 3, no. 4 (December 1982): 4- 17. Reproduced

Seon Seung-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Reproduced: p. 25, cat. 13a-b

Chang, Chin-sung. “Muromachi Ink Painting and Early Joseon Landscape Painting: The Cases of Shūbun, Shūbun, and Bunsei [무로마치(室町)수묵화와 조선 초기 회화-슈분(秀文),슈분(周文),분세이(文淸)를 둘러싼 쟁점들].” Misulsa nondan 36 (2016): 33-60. www.dbpia.co.kr

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

Beyond Folding Screens [조선, 병풍의 나라]. Seoul: Amorepacific Museum of Art, 2018.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 376 archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 251

Exhibition history

Main Asian Rotation (G121). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 2003-March 12, 2004)

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).

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사계산수도 (四季山水圖)

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