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Landscape of the Four Seasons
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Landscape of the Four Seasons

Yi Sumun (Korean, b. c. 1404), artist · late 1400s · One of a pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

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.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineLandscape of the Four Seasons (사계산수도 [四季山水圖]), late 1400s. Yi Sumun (Korean, b. c. 1404). One of a pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper; overall: 108 x 361.3 cm (42 1/2 x 142 1/4 in.); painting only: 92.7 x 348.7 cm (36 1/2 x 137 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1976.92.2
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