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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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148853
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Landscape of the Four Seasons
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painting
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148853
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painting
title
Landscape of the Four Seasons
description
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.
date
late 1400s
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CC0
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en
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Q60473174
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35871
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Painting
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1
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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.)
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Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
accession
1976.92
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Pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper
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Landscape of the Four Seasons (사계산수도 [四季山水圖]), late 1400s. Yi Sumun (Korean, b. c. 1404). Pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1976.92
titleInOriginalLanguage
사계산수도 [四季山水圖]
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ASIAN - Folding screen
didYouKnow
Yi Sumun is believed to have been a Korean man who moved to Japan in 1424 and became an influential landscape painter in Japan.
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. <em>Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections</em>. Cleveland: The Museum, 1977.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 92–92, fig. 1-2, Mentioned: p. 11
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 376
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Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. <em>One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art : Catalogue</em>. [New York]: Japan Society, 1981.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 54, fig. 27
citation
Williams, Marjorie L., "Korean Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art," <em>Korean Culture</em> 3, no. 4 (December 1982): 4–17.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 14, pl. 16
citation
Cunningham, Michael. “Notes on the Artist Sōami and a Lost Painting.” <em>Monumenta Serica</em> 43 (1995): 405–438.
page_number
Reproduced: pl. 5a-b, pp. 426–427
citation
Seon Seung-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 25, cat. 13a-b
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Chang, Chin-sung. “Muromachi Ink Painting and Early Joseon Landscape Painting: The Cases of Shūbun, Shūbun, and Bunsei [무로마치(室町)수묵화와 조선 초기 회화-슈분(秀文),슈분(周文),분세이(文淸)를 둘러싼 쟁점들].” <em>Misulsa nondan</em> 36 (2016): 33–60.
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<em>Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910</em>. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.
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Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: P. 251
citation
<em>Beyond Folding Screens</em> [조선, 병풍의 나라]. Seoul: Amorepacific Museum of Art, 2018.
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 07:38:44.745000
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148853
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Korean Art
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ASIAN - Folding screen
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Pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper
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