{ "data": { "id": 153664, "accession_number": "1987.187", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Snowscape with Figures (\ud55c\ub9bc\uc81c\uc124\ub3c4 [\u5bd2\u6797\u973d\u96ea\u5716]), 1584. Kim Si (Korean, 1524\u20131593). Hanging scroll; ink on silk; painting only: 53 x 67.3 cm (20 7/8 x 26 1/2 in.); overall: 148.6 x 90.2 cm (58 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1987.187", "current_location": null, "title": "Snowscape with Figures", "title_in_original_language": "\ud55c\ub9bc\uc81c\uc124\ub3c4 [\u5bd2\u6797\u973d\u96ea\u5716]", "creation_date": "1584", "creation_date_earliest": 1584, "creation_date_latest": 1584, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392\u20131910)" ], "technique": "hanging scroll; ink on silk", "support_materials": [], "department": "Korean Art", "collection": "ASIAN - Hanging scroll", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "Painting only: 53 x 67.3 cm (20 7/8 x 26 1/2 in.); Overall: 148.6 x 90.2 cm (58 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": { "painting only": { "height": 0.53, "height_inch": 20, "height_inch_fraction": 0.875, "width": 0.673, "width_inch": 26, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5 }, "overall": { "height": 1.486, "height_inch": 58, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.902, "width_inch": 35, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "The inscription (\u6b3e\u8b58) on the upper left corner reads as following: \n\u842c\u66c6\u7532\u7533\u79cb\u990a\u677e\u5c45\u58eb\u7232\u5b89\u58eb\u78ba\u4f5c\u5bd2\u6797\u973d\u96ea\u5716. \nThe painter's seal (\u6731\u6587\u65b9\u5370) printed reads as following: \n\u91d1\u7994\u5b63\u7d8f", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": 1 } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 310231, "title": "The Year in Review for 1987", "description": "The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).", "opening_date": "1988-02-24T05:00:00" }, { "id": 310268, "title": "Scholar's Studio", "description": "Scholar's Studio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989).", "opening_date": "1989-09-19T04:00:00" }, { "id": 211324, "title": "The Treasure Exhibition of the Former Era of Choson Dynasty - Looking for Great Cultural Legacy II", "description": "The Treasure Exhibition of the Former Era of Choson Dynasty - Looking for Great Cultural Legacy II. Ho-am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea (December 13, 1996-February 11, 1997).", "opening_date": "1996-12-13T00:00:00" }, { "id": 211775, "title": "Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).", "opening_date": "1998-02-21T00:00:00" }, { "id": 617635, "title": "From Dreaming to Hiking: Korean Landscape Paintings", "description": "From Dreaming to Hiking: Korean Landscape Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-September 29, 2024).", "opening_date": "2024-03-01T05:00:00" }, { "id": 672927, "title": "Art of the Early Joseon", "description": "Art of the Early Joseon. National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea (Republic of) (organizer) (June 9-August 31, 2025).", "opening_date": "2025-06-09T04:00:00" } ], "legacy": [ { "description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 238). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 13, 2013-January 28, 2014).", "opening_date": "2013-06-13T00:00:00" }, { "description": "The Treasure Exhibition of the Former Era of Choson Dynasty - Looking for Great cultural Legacy II. Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea. (December 13, 1996-February 11, 1997).", "opening_date": "1996-12-13T00:00:00" } ] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "(Shagoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hy\u014dgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131987", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1987\u2013", "sortorder": 2 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Having retreated to the snow-covered mountains, a scholar sits in his studio surrounded by trees. An empty wooden bridge in the distance appears to be longing for friends from afar. Such iconography often evokes the idea of an idealized recluse focusing on scholarly pursuits.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This hanging scroll is a rare surviving example of early Joseon period painting. The painter Kim Si (1481\u20131537) was a member of the aristocracy, or high-ranking men. However, after his father, Kim Anro (1481\u20131537) fell out of power, Kim Si retreated himself and spent his life as a reclusive artist.

In such a context, this image of a solitary scholar in his studio surrounded by trees and snow-covered mountains does not simply render an idealized life of a recluse focusing on scholarly pursuits; rather, it is the painter\u2019s mindscape, indicating that the glory of his family has become a forgotten part of his past.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60475974" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1987.187-snowscape-with-figur" ] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "\u201cArt of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 1987.\u201d Archives of Asian Art 41 (1988): 95\u2013110.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 98, fig. 12; Reproduced: p. 99, fig. 12", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/20111187" }, { "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1987.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (February 1988): 30\u201371.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 54; Mentioned: p. 70, no. 189", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160017" }, { "citation": "Hoam Misulgwan, Chungang Ilbosa, and Han'guk Pangsong Kongsa. Choso\u0306n cho\u0306n'gi kukpojo\u0306n: widaehan munhwa yusan u\u0306l ch'ajaso\u0306 (2) : 1996.12.14--1997.2.11 [\u671d\u9bae\u524d\u671f\u570b\u5bf3\u5c55 : \uc704\ub300\ud55c\ubb38\ud654\uc720\uc0b0\uc744\ucc3e\uc544\uc11c(2) : 1996.12.14--1997.2.11 = The Treasure Exhibition of the Former Era of Choson Dynasty - Looking for Great cultural Legacy II]. So\u0306ul T'u\u0306kpyo\u0306lsi: Samso\u0306ng Munhwa Chaedan, 1996.", "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 36, 37, pp. 66\u201367", "url": "" }, { "citation": "Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 241", "url": null }, { "citation": "T\u014dy\u014d kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kur\u012bvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [\u6771\u6d0b\u7d75\u753b\u306e\u7cbe\u83ef : \u7279\u522b\u5c55: \u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30f4\u30e9\u30f3\u30c8\u7f8e\u8853\u9928\u306e\u30b3\u30ec\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u304b\u3089 = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.", "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 78\u201379, no. 49", "url": null }, { "citation": "Hong, Sun-pyo. \"Understanding and Adopting Chinese Painting in 15th-and-16th-century Korean Art Scene [15\u318d16\uc138\uae30 \uc870\uc120\ud654\ub2e8\uc758 \uc911\uad6d\ud654 \uc778\uc2dd\uacfc \uc218\uc6a9\ud0dc\ub3c4]. Misulsa nondan (2008): 49\u201373.", "page_number": null, "url": "http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01351988" }, { "citation": "Jungmann, Burlind. Pathways to Korean Culture: Paintings of the Joseon Period (1392\u20131910). Londres, Reaktion Books Ltd., 2014.", "page_number": null, "url": null }, { "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 252\u2013253", "url": "" }, { "citation": "McCormick, Sooa Im. \"Cross-cultural Dialogues and Misattributions in Early Joseon Period Landscape Paintings.\" Arts of Asia 48, no. 3 (May-June 2018): 78\u201384.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 80, fig. 3", "url": null }, { "citation": "McCormick, Sooa Im. \"The Past and Present of the Korean Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" In The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, \uad6d\uc678\uc18c\uc7ac\ubb38\ud654\uc7ac\uc7ac\ub2e8, and An Min-hu\u0306i, ed., 22\u201337. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 31\u201332, fig. 25", "url": "" }, { "citation": "Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and \uad6d\uc678\uc18c\uc7ac\ubb38\ud654\uc7ac\uc7ac\ub2e8. The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Edited by An Min-hu\u0306i. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 172\u2013175, no. 109", "url": "" }, { "citation": "Chang, Chin-Sung. \"The Significance of 16th-Century Korean Landscape Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" In The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, \uad6d\uc678\uc18c\uc7ac\ubb38\ud654\uc7ac\uc7ac\ub2e8, and An Min-hu\u0306i, ed., 296\u2013303. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 296\u2013303, pl. 109", "url": "" }, { "citation": "\ud3b8\uc9d1 \uc591 \uc218\ubbf8 [and three others], \uad6d\ub9bd \uc911\uc559 \ubc15\ubb3c\uad00 (Korea), p\u2019y\u014fnjip Yang Su-mi [and three others], and Kungnip Chungang Pangmulgwan (Korea). \ud654\uc870\ubbf8\uac10 = \u82b1\u9ce5\u7f8e\u611f = the Sense of Beauty within Bird-and-Flower Paintings. Edited by \uc591 \uc218\ubbf8 and Su-mi Yang. S\u014ful T\u2019\u016dkpy\u014flsi: \uad6d\ub9bd \uc911\uc559 \ubc15\ubb3c\uad00, 2025.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 237, no. 168; Mentioned: p. 510", "url": "" }, { "citation": "Kugoe Sojae Munhwajae Chaedan. It\u2019s__Here: \ub098\ub77c \ubc16 \ube5b\ub098\ub294 \ud55c\uad6d \uc61b \uadf8\ub9bc. 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