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Winter and Summer Flowers

冬夏花図屏風

c. 1600

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Kaihō Yūshō 海北友松

(Japanese, 1533–1615)

Japan, Momoyama period

(1573-1615)

One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper

Image: 157 x 357.6 cm (61 13/16 x 140 13/16 in.); Overall: 169.6 x 370.2 cm (66 3/4 x 145 3/4 in.); Panel: 169.6 x 61.7 cm (66 3/4 x 24 5/16 in.); with frame: 173.2 x 373.8 cm (68 3/16 x 147 3/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1987.40.1

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

The pine and bamboo are defined by ink wash, but the flowers take form through color within contour lines.

Description

White camellias bloom behind a large pine in the right screen and blue morning glories creep through bamboo in the left screen of this composition. The mountains and bridge suggest a continuous landscape, but the paintings actually juxtapose flowers of winter and summer, with time progressing from right to left. Kaihō Yūshō painted similar landscapes for Zen temples in Kyoto.

Provenance

?-1987

(Eastern Fine Arts, New York, NY, ?-1987, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1987-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1987-present

Citations

Chiba-shi Bijutsukan. Shugyoku no Nihon bijutsu: Hosomi korekushon no zenbō to Bosuton, Kurīburando, Sakkurā no wadaisaku : kaikan isshūnen kinen. Chiba-shi: Chiba-shi Bijutsukan, 1996. Reproduced: cat. no. 140, p. 166

Monet, Claude, and David Bromfield. Monet & Japan. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2001. Reproduced: cat. no. 121

Cunningham, Michael. "Two Exhibitions of Japanese Painting." Orientations, vol 32, number 6 (June 2001): pp. 63-68. Reproduced: pp. 66-67, fig. 6

Cuningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced: pp. 22-23

Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014 Reproduced: cat. no. 30, 94 and 95

Exhibition history

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121).The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12, 2004-July 13, 2004).

The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).

Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4-December 11, 1988).

The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19-December 1, 1991).

The Legacy of Japanese Art. Chiba City Museum of Art (organizer) (October 1-November 10, 1996).

Monet & Japan. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia (organizer) (March 10-June 11, 2001).

Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).

Japanese art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 19, 2019-January 5, 2020).