Summer Landscape

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Summer Landscape

1764

Tokuyama Gyokuran (Japanese, 1728–1784)

Tokuyama Gyokuran was famous as a painter and a poet during her lifetime, but is perhaps best known today as the wife of the legendary artist Ike Taiga (1723-1776). Gyokuran learned painting from Taiga, and his influence can be seen most clearly in her landscapes. For this view, Gyokuran used a wonderful combination of dry brush and wet brush techniques, particularly in rendering the rocks, mountains, and trees. This work is significant in that it is the only one that Gyokuran signed with a specific date: the eighth month of 1770.

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Object Details

Title:

Summer Landscape

Date:

1764

Artist:

Tokuyama Gyokuran (Japanese, 1728–1784)

Medium:

Ink and color on paper; mounted as a hanging scroll

Dimensions:

Exclusive of mount: 66 1/8 × 34 1/2 inches (168 × 87.6 cm) Mount: 7 feet 2 9/16 inches × 42 1/2 inches (219.9 × 108 cm) Mount (with scroll ends): 45 7/16 inches (115.4 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Purchased with funds contributed by Andrea M. Baldeck, M.D., in honor of Kyoko Kinoshita, 2010

Accession Number:

2010-51-1

Geography:

Made in Japan, Asia

Context:

Period: Edo Period (1615-1868)

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