Landscape
Dateca.1860
Label TextTomioka Tessai (1837-1924) is well known as a scholar of great knowledge of both Japanese and Chinese literature, and as a distinguished literati painter with his own style, whose work spans nearly seventy years. In this landscape, the artist suggests the grand scale of the mountains using a profusion of overlapping clouds. Two persons dwelling in rooms on either side of a bridge at the foot of the mountains reveal Tessai's impression of living surrounded by nature.
Object number60.86
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Legends, Tales, Poetry: Visual Narrative in Japanese Art, December 22, 2012 - July 21, 2013
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Spring and Summer in Japan",
February 28, 2002 - October 13, 2002
Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, "Gift to a City: Masterworks from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection in the Seattle Art Museum", cat. # 147Published ReferencesFuller, Richard E. "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 178
"Gift to a City" exhibition catalogue. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1965, cat. no. 147Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
"Gift to a City: Masterworks From the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection in the Seattle Art Museum," Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1965, no. 147.
Dimensions49 3/8 x 19 7/8 in. (125.41 x 50.48 cm)
Overall h.: 80 1/2 in.
Overall w.: 24 3/4 in.
MediumInk and color on silk
Object number: 85.234
Object number: 50.148
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