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Chinese Landscape

Photo: Eduardo Calderon

Chinese Landscape

ca. 1925

Hirai Baisen

Japanese, 1889-1969

After traveling to China in 1913, Hirai Baisen began to incorporate traditional Chinese subject matter into his modern Japanese painting practice. The white-walled buildings and the boats of the left-hand screen identify this as a Chinese landscape setting. Baisen, more widely known for his rich use of color, explored the expressive possibilities of ink on paper in this dramatic pair of six-panel screens.

Ink on paper
67 1/4 x 148 1/2 in. (170.8 x 377.2cm)
Gift of Griffith and Patricia Way, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
2010.41.52.1
Photo: Eduardo Calderon
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Published ReferencesMorioka, Michiyo; Berry, Paul. "Modern Masters of Kyoto: The Transformation of Japanese Painting Traditions," Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1999, p. 272-273, illus. 76.

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