Sōami, Landscape
Severance Fund, 1963.262 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Sōami

Landscape

early 1500s

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
128.5 × 111.7 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-111066

Kyoto-based painter Sōami adapted the small-format Chinese album leaf and handscroll painting compositions belonging to the Ashikaga shogunate to the large-scale paintings he created for residences and Buddhist temples. As curator of the shogunal collection, Sōami would have carefully examined its Southern Song and Yuan dynasty Chinese paintings, gaining specialized knowledge of a variety of brush modes, including the soft style used for this painting. The scene is part of a continuous landscape once mounted in the folding screen format. Removed from the screen, this section of the painting w…

Provenance

Severance Fund, 1963.262

Registry history

  • early 1500s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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