id: 159739 accession number: 1997.111 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.111 updated: 2022-01-04 17:21:59.773000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1770s creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1779 current location: creditline: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716-1783) - artist --- measurements: Painting only: 174.6 x 67.3 cm (68 3/4 x 26 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- 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. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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." --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.111/1997.111_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.111/1997.111_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.111/1997.111_full.tif