Kano Tan’yū, The Four Seasons
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Maud Eells Corning, 1992.394.1 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Kano Tan’yū

The Four Seasons

1668

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
Six-panel folding screen, ink and slight color on paper
Dimensions
174 × 381 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-114493

Tan'yū's skills were honed early within the regimen of the Kano family's painting studio. His grandfather, Eitoku (1543–1590) was the Momoyama period's most sought-after painter, a champion of colorful, large-scale painting compositions who worked for several of the country's most powerful leaders. When the young Tan'yū was summoned to Edo in 1617 by the shogun to become a member of the new capital's official painting studio, few opportunities to work on similarly ambitious projects existed. Yet by the end of his career, Tan'yū had supervised the execution and installation of linked mural pai…

Provenance

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Maud Eells Corning, 1992.394.1

Registry history

  • 1668 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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