Bamboo
1900s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Painting only: 95.3 x 55.9 cm (37 1/2 x 22 in.); Overall: 189.1 x 70.5 cm (74 7/16 x 27 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Korea
- 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
As one of the four symbols called "Four Gentlemen ( 四君子),” along plum blossoms, chrysanthemum, and orchids, bamboos represent strength, both physical and mental.
