Kano Motonobu, Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape
Fund, 1970.6.1 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Kano Motonobu

Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

1500s

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
One of a set of sliding door panels mounted as hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
177.1 × 137.1 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-114718

These four paintings originally decorated sliding doors that partitioned the interiors of Japanese buildings. Painters from the Kano school, named after the artist Kano Motonobu (1476–1559), were major forces in the production of screens and architectural interiors in Kyoto. When he headed the workshop, his work was prized by the upper strata of society. Kano is credited with combining the subtlety of Chinese black ink painting, as seen in the rocks and hills, with the color and realism of Japanese painting, seen in the birds and flowers. Landscape scenes like this were prized by the elite of…

Provenance

Fund, 1970.6.1

Registry history

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

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