Landscape of the Four Seasons
Yi Sumun (Korean, b. c. 1404)
late 1400s
- Medium
- Pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Culture
- Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Korean Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
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.
