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
(Eastern Fine Arts, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?–1987); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1987–)
Accession Number
1987.40
Medium
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 174 x 376 cm (68 1/2 x 148 1/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund
