Mountain Landscape
Dateearly 19th century
Maker
Okada Beisanjin
Japanese, 1744-1820
Maker
Nanga School
Japanese
Label TextLike many amateur scholar-painters, Beisanjin was self-taught. A member of a prosperous Osaka merchant family, he was at the center of an artistic circle that valued individuality and free expression in the manner of the Chinese literati, who rejected professionalism and strived to reflect the deeper essence underlying external appearance.
Object number65.21
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, "Transforming Traditions: Japanese and Korean Art since 1800", May 23, 2009 - February 21, 2010
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "A Sack Full of Tigers: Diffusion and Diversity in Japanese Painting of the 19th Century Diffusion and Diversity in Japanese Painting", December 6, 1997 - November 15, 1998
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions73 x 19 3/4 in. (185.4 x 50.2cm)
MediumInk and color on paper
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