id: 315304 accession number: 2022.141 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.141 updated: 2023-04-15 11:10:45.919000 Cityscape of Pyongyang, late 1800s. Kim Yoon-bo (Korean, 1865–1938). Ten-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk; painting: 98.3 x 307.3 cm (38 11/16 x 121 in.); overall framed: 210.2 x 325.5 cm (82 3/4 x 128 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Partial purchase from the Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund and partial gift of The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM, and Roberta Carroll, M.D. 2022.141 title: Cityscape of Pyongyang title in original language: 평양도병 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1800s creation date earliest: 1875 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Partial purchase from the Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund and partial gift of The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM, and Roberta Carroll, M.D. copyright: --- culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) technique: Ten-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk department: Korean Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kim Yoon-bo (Korean, 1865–1938) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 98.3 x 307.3 cm (38 11/16 x 121 in.); Overall framed: 210.2 x 325.5 cm (82 3/4 x 128 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Mountains and Rivers Beyond the DMZ – Korean Gallery 236 Rotation opening date: 2019-01-23T05:00:00 Mountains and Rivers Beyond the DMZ – Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 21-July 21, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Bonhams New York, NY, 21 March 2018 sale, lot 2293, sold to Joseph P. and Roberta L. Carroll) date: March 21, 2018 footnotes: citations: (The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Prof. Roberta L. Carroll, MD, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2018–2022 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2022– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: By the end of the 1800s, Pyongyang, now the capital of North Korea, was nicknamed the “Jerusalem of the East” for its high Christian population. digital description: Today Pyongyang is better known as the capital of North Korea, one of the world’s most oppressive regimes. But during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) the city was largely famous for three things: good local government, economic stability, and talented entertainers. Thus, the king's favored senior court officials were often appointed to Pyongyang's governor prior to their full retirement.

Painted by Kim Yoon-bo, native to Pyongyang, this folding screen provides us with a better understanding of the late 19th-century Korean landscape paintings characteristics with topographic accuracy without losing the sophistication of calligraphic brushwork. wall description: Today Pyongyang is better known as the capital of one of the world’s most oppressive regimes. But during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) the city was largely famous for three things: good local government, economic stability, and talented entertainers. By the end of the 1800s, it was nicknamed the “Jerusalem of the East” for its high Christian population.

This ten-panel folding screen details Pyongyang’s well-known historical and natural sites. Some of the notable places include the Shrine of Military Heroes 무열사 (the third and fourth panel from the left) dedicated to the Chinese military generals who fought on behalf of Joseon Korea during the Japanese invasion (1592–97), and a pavilion named Floating Jade 부벽루 (the fourth panel from the right) overlooking the Taedong River in which extravagant boating parties once took place. Flourishing in the 1800s, map-like landscape paintings such as this screen demonstrate that Korean artists were enthusiastic about amusing their audience with spatial illusion by using a bird’s-eye perspective. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Son, Myeonghee. "Pre-modern and Modern Pyongyang as Represented in Joseon-Period Maps and Paintings [조선시대 평양성도를 통해 본 평양의 모습과 지역적 성격]." Hanguk gojido yeongu no. 1 (2009): 63-84. page number: url: https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002397013 Bonham's New York. Fine Japanese and Korean Art. 21 March 2018. Lot no. 2293. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 135, lot no. 2293 url: Kim, Mi-jung and So, Hyun-su. "A Study on the Characteristics of Humanistic Landscape in Pyongyang Castle through Pictorial Maps in the Late Joseon Dynasty [조선후기 회화식 고지도를 통해 본 평양성의 인문경관 특성]." Journal of Korean Institute of Traditional Landscape Architecture 38, no. 2 (2020): 14-30. page number: url: https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002608499 --- IMAGES