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Morning Glories
Suzuki Kiitsu (Japanese, 1796-1858)
19th century
- Medium
- Two-panel screen; ink, colors and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 198.2 × 87.7 cm (78 × 34 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Suzuki Kiitsu was an artist of the Rimpa school, which was sometimes called the “decorative school” of painting for its bold compositions and design sense. Rimpa artists took a significant interest in painting morning glories, which were bred in several varieties in the 19th century. Here, Kiitsu featured these flowers on an oversized fan pasted onto a screen. Although the creases in the fan suggest that it had been used before becoming part of this work, that may not have been the case. The artist could have creased the fan to allude to earlier similar compositions or simply to play with the subject.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
