Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
63-1/4 x 22 in. (image) 84-1/8 x 28-1/8 in. (overall) 31-3/8 in. (installation width - hanging bars) L: 1-1/4 in. (hanging cord)
Period
Mark Description
Signed by artist and date reads: Meiji kanoto no mi (corresponds to 1881) Winter, 11th month, 77 [years old] Rojin Kian, year ____ 4 relief seals: (unread) Inscribed: (unread) Square relief seal u.r.c.: ____sanrin ???? Two vertically arranged square intaglio seals following inscription in u.r. Chujun no in ???? and Kian ?? Square relief seal in l.l.c.: Heigan keishu bankaku joryu ????????
Accession Number
Credit Line
Jane Weldon Myers Fund
Copyright
Collection
Asian Art (Japanese and Korean)
Color Palette
Provenance
(Shibunkaku Co. Ltd., Kyoto, Japan); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2012.
Gallery Labels
春山水図
Layered outcroppings, mounds, and peaks climb to a monumental height. Scarlet blossoms and faint touches of pink indicate the coming of spring.
Kian was born in Tajima, in present-day Hyogo Prefecture. He was skilled in poetry and calligraphy, and at the age of 16 he went to Kyoto to study with the painting master Nakabayashi Chikutō, becoming one of his top students. He studied Chinese paintings from the Song to the Qing periods, and late in life—when this painting and the one adjacent were made—he resided in Tokyo, where he had founded his own school.
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