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Landscape of the Four Seasons
Yi Sumun (Korean, b. c. 1404)late 1400s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Yi Sumun is believed to have been a Korean painter who migrated to Japan in 1424 at the age of 20. This pair of screens is the artist’s most important composition in this format. Viewed from right to left, the screens show the passage of the four seasons, a popular theme in medieval Japanese ink painting.
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- Title: Landscape of the Four Seasons
- Creator: Yi Sumun (Korean, b. c. 1404)
- Date Created: late 1400s
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 92.7 x 348.7 cm (36 1/2 x 137 5/16 in.); Painting only: 93 x 57.1 cm (36 5/8 x 22 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: (Victor L. Hauge [1919–2013], Falls Church, VA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, -present
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.92
- Medium: Pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper
- Fun Fact: Yi Sumun is believed to have been a Korean man who moved to Japan in 1424 and became an influential landscape painter in Japan.
- Department: Korean Art
- Culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
- Accession Number: 1976.92
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