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Landscape

Dateca.1860

Maker Tomioka Tessai Japanese, 1836 - 1924

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. 147

Credit 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