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Mountain Landscape

Mountain Landscape

early 19th century

Okada Beisanjin

Japanese, 1744-1820

Nanga School

Japanese

Like 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.


Ink and color on paper
73 x 19 3/4 in. (185.4 x 50.2cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
65.21
location
Not currently on view

Resources

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

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