Spring and Autumn Landscapes
Kusunoki Keishū, Spring and Autumn Landscapes, 1955, pair of six-panel screens; ink and color on paper, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, © artist or other rights holder, 2009.87A,B
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- Title
Spring and Autumn Landscapes
- Artist
- Date
1955
- Period
Japan: Shōwa period (1926-1989)
- Medium
pair of six-panel screens; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
overall: 68 in x 141 in; each panel: 68 in x 23 1/2 in
- Collection Area
Asian Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
folding screen
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles
- Accession Number
2009.87A,B
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
Kusunoki Keishū saw himself as a modern-day heir to the tradition of Chinese literati painting, in which personal expression of the cultivated mind is the highest goal for an artist and a gentleman. In these lyrical spring and autumn landscapes, he creates an intensely personal vision of nature with frenzied brushwork and a unique palette of purples, pinks, yellows, and greens. Tiny houses dot the topography and two fishermen ply the waters in the spring landscape, but otherwise humans have made little imprint on the surging energy of Keishū's forests and mountains.
These are the only known screen paintings by Keishū.
