Landscape Screen
Artist/Culture
Yokoi Kinkoku
(Japanese, 1761–1832)
DateLate Edo period, about 1810
Mediumink on paper with textile border
Dimensionsoverall: 170.3 x 376.9 cm (67 1/16 x 148 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineAlexander H. Bullock Fund
Object number1986.2
Label TextA lover of nature and a follower of the mountain-climbing Shugendo sect, Kinkoku sought to express the vitality and flux inherent in the physical world. His association with haiku poets during his years in Nagoya (1795-1823) inspired an interest in and admiration for the Nanga painter Yosa Buson (q.v.). After studying Buson's mature landscapes, Kinkoku's early painting style- based on the more naturalistic Maruyama-Shijo school- was transformed.
The spontaneity and individualism implicit in Nanga ideals are evident in this "Chinese" landscape of towering mountain peaks and huts around a lake. More dynamic than Buson's work, Kinkoku's painting shows the use of washes to create tone, loose strokes to depict mountain forms, and a variety of freely applied brushwork to suggest foliage. Dots scattered over the picture surface unify the composition visually.ProvenanceRobin Fox, Croton-on-Hudson, NYOn View
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