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Landscape

Dateca. 1500

Label TextRough brushstrokes render mountains shrouded in mist, while calligraphic strokes add houses in the foothills and a lone boat in the foreground. The inscription by a Zen monk named Ko’o (meaning “old man by the lake”) comments that “nature and painting should reveal each other.” This thought resonates with “poetry in painting and painting in poetry,” as observed in the landscape paintings of the Chinese painter and poet Wang Wei (ca. 699–759), who is also mentioned in the inscription here.

Object number50.120

Exhibition HistoryPortland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Gift to a City: Masterworks from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection in the Seattle Art Museum, Nov. 3 - 28, 1965. Cat. no. 119. Paris, Musée Cernuschi, La découverte de L’Asie, hommage a René Grousset, 1954. Cat. no. 550. San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in Asia & the West, 1957. San Francisco, M. H. de Young Mem. Museum, Treasures of Japan, 1960. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum, 1960. Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Treasures in America, 1961. Eugene, Oregon, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Treasure Finds in Pacific Coast Museums, 1962. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, A Thousand Cranes, Feb. 5 - July 12, 1987. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Legends, Tales, Poetry: Visual Narrative in Japanese Art, Dec. 22, 2012 - July 21, 2013. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing [on view July 16 - Dec. 5, 2021].Published References"Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 95 (b&w) Lee, Sherman E. "Japanese Monochrome Painting at Seattle," in Artibus Asiae, vol. 14, nos. 1, 2, 1951, pp. 58-59, fig. 5 Paris, Musée Cernuschi, cat. “La découverte de L’Asie,” hommage a René Grousset, 1954, p. 143-144, 146 #550, p. 157 (XXX), pl. XXX San Francisco Museum of Art, "Art in Asia & the West," 1957, illus. p. 26 Fuller, 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. 95a and b Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Treasures in Am.," cat., 1961, p. 47 Eugene, OR, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, "Treasure Finds in Pacific Coast Museums," cat. 1962, ill. p. 15, 16 (unnumbered) Portland, OR, Portland Art Museum, "Gift to a City," cat. 1965, no. 119, ill. Shimada, Shujiro, "Japanese Art in the West," 1969 Christensen, E. O., "A Guide to Art Museums in the U.S.," 1968, #461 Hagen, Margaret A. "Varieties of Realism: Geometries of Representational Art," Cambridge University Press, 1986, p. 151, fig. 6.22 (right)

Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection

Dimensions30 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (77.2 x 27 cm) Overall h.: 63 1/2 in. Overall w.: 16 1/4 in.

MediumInk on paper