id: 159739
accession number: 1997.111
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.111
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Snow Landscape, c. 1770s. Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716-1783). Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; painting only: 174.6 x 67.3 cm (68 3/4 x 26 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.111
title: Snow Landscape
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creation date: c. 1770s
creation date earliest: 1770
creation date latest: 1779
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creditline: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
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culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
department: Japanese Art
collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716-1783) - artist
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measurements: Painting only: 174.6 x 67.3 cm (68 3/4 x 26 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997: The Fragrance of Ink: Chinese and Japanese Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. A. Dean Perry, April 19-August 3, 1997.
Later Japanese Art Rotation (Gallery 113); December 4, 2203 - March 18, 2004.
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Buson is recognized in Japanese literary history as one of the country's greatest poets. He was also an accomplished painter who revolutionized the 18th-century "scholar-painting" school by introducing new subject matter and a more personalized brush style. Like most literati painters who were schooled in the Chinese classics, his early paintings invariably depicted historical subjects in a precise manner. By the 1770s, however, he developed a looser, more expressive brush manner distinctly his own. Although undated, the painting's exuberant style suggests that this snow scene dates from that time. One of the artist's seals reads: "flung ink gives life to brush lines."
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