Landscape

late 15th century

Japanese, fl. 1414 - 1463

Landscape paintings in the style of Shubun and his followers often show the influence of Chinese ink painting, in particular those of Ma Yuan and Xia Gui. The axe-cut brushstrokes as seen on the foreground rocks in this painting are one distinctive feature of the so-called “Ma-Xia” style. The composition is typical of landscape paintings in the Shubun style: towering pine trees in the right foreground and pinnacled mountain peaks behind them project a sense of great height, while the misty areas on the left evoke an open atmospheric space.

Ink and color on paper

Image (Painting only): 35 1/2 × 13 3/16 in. (90.2 × 33.5 cm)

Overall (Incl mounting, end knobs & hanging braid): 65 9/16 × 15 3/4 in. (166.5 × 40 cm)

Eugene 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. 121.

49.90

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Masterpieces of Japanese Art from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum", November 1, 1998 - March 1, 1999

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Flights of Fancy: Natural and Supernatural Images In Japanese Art", December 9, 1998 - August 1, 1999

Paris, France, Musee Cernuschi, "La Decouvert de L'Asiae, Hommage A Rene Grousset", 1954, no. 549 (1954)

San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, "Art in Asia and the West", 1957 (1957)

San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, "Treasures Of Japan", 1960 (1960)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum", 1960 (1960)

New York, New York, Asia House, "Tea Taste in Japanese Art", 1963 (1963)

Osaka, Japan, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, "Suiboku (Sumi) Paintings in the Far East", 1964 (1964)

Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, "Gift to a City: Masterworks from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection in the Seattle Art Museum", (1965) cat. # 121

Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces of Japanese Art", 1969, no. 28 (1969)

Princeton, New Jersey, The Art Museum, Princeton University, "Japanese Ink Painting: The Muromachi Period", April 24, 1976 - June 13, 1976. (04/24/1976 - 06/13/1976)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "A Thousand Cranes: Treasures of Japanese Art", February 5 - July 12, 1987 (02/05/1987 - 07/12/1987)

Published ReferencesLee, Sherman E., "Japanese Art at Seattle", Oriental Art, Winter 1949-1950, p. 93, fig. 18, p. 125

"Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 95 (b&w)

Lee, Sherman E., "Japanese Painting at Seattle", Art Asiae, XIV, 1/2, 1951, pp. 43-61, fig.3

Musee Cernuschi, "La Decouvert de L'Asiae, Hommage A Rene Grousset", 1954, p. 146, no. 549

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, "Art in Asia and the West", 1957, ill. p. 35

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. 90a-c

Swann, Peter C., "Art In China, Korea and Japan", 1963, pl. 188, p. 193

Lee, Sherman E., "Tea Taste in Japanese Art", Asia House, 1963, p. 33, no. 43, p. 103

Lee, Sherman E., "History of Far Eastern Art", 1964, p. 381, fig. 502, p. 382

"Gift to a City" exhibition catalogue. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1965, cat. no. 121

Mayuyama, Junkichi, "Japanese Art in the West", 1966, no. 158

Munsterberg, Hugo, "Der Ferne Osten", 1968, p. 179

Shimada, Shujiro. "Japanese Art in the West," (1969)

Trubner, Henry, Rathbun William J., Kaputa, Catherine A., "Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum", Kodansha International, Tokyo, Japan, 1973, p. 230, ill. no. 209

Hagen, Margaret A., "Varieties of Realism, Geometries of Representational Art", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986, pp. 151 fig. 6.22 (left), p. 152 fig. 6.23 (detail)

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, "A Thousand Cranes" Treasures Of Japanese Art", co published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, California, 1987, ill. p. 62

"Selected Works." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, p. 190

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