id: 156305 accession number: 1992.138 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.138 updated: 2022-04-21 09:00:55.772000 Poem on Plum, 1700s-1800s. Copy after Yi Hwang (Korean, 1501-1570). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; overall: 115 x 68.2 cm (45 1/4 x 26 7/8 in.); painting only: 46 x 52.7 cm (18 1/8 x 20 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Roberta Carroll, M.D. 1992.138 title: Poem on Plum title in original language: 매화시 (梅花詩) series: series in original language: creation date: 1700s-1800s creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Roberta Carroll, M.D. copyright: --- culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) technique: hanging scroll; ink on paper department: Korean Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Calligraphy find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Yi Hwang (Korean, 1501-1570) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 115 x 68.2 cm (45 1/4 x 26 7/8 in.); Painting only: 46 x 52.7 cm (18 1/8 x 20 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary opening date: 1992-10-27T04:00:00 Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993). title: Object in Focus: Poem by Yi Hwang opening date: 1999-10-05T00:00:00 Object in Focus: Poem by Yi Hwang. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 5-December 5, 1999). title: The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00 The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). title: Korean Gallery 236 Rotation opening date: 2017-01-13T05:00:00 Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 13-July 10, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Roberta Carroll, MD, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1992 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1992- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Yi Hwang, the author of this calligraphy, composed more than 100 poems on plum blossoms. digital description: wall description: For Yi Hwang, a celebrated scholar and poet in 16th-century Korea, writing poems was an escape from partisan politics. Because its flowers often bloom in the middle of winter, Joseon period Korean scholars like Yi found plum blossoms a perfect subject to express the value of endurance and self-cultivation. In his numerous poems, Yi used plum blossom imagery to express his feelings. The poem on this hanging scroll reads: “Wishing to fly away, red leaves left the mountain villa. Their large sleeves are frosted due to blue clouds. The clouds in the sky look upright, which are beyond human beings’ ability. The plum tree whispered to me that [the leaves] fell from the wind and landed on the fence.” The mountain villa in this poem may refer to the Dosan Academy, a Confucian school that Yi established after his retirement, and the red leaves of the plum blossom are probably Yi’s poetic personification. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Little, Stephen, Virginia Moon, and In-su Cho. Beyond Line: The Art of Korean Writing. 2019. page number: url: Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014. page number: url: Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 82 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.138/1992.138_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.138/1992.138_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.138/1992.138_full.tif