Fisherman

Artist/Culture Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845)

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Mediumink on paper

Dimensionsimage: 43.4 x 27.8 cm (17 1/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
mount (Scroll H 117 cm x W45cm): 116.5 x 39.6 cm (45 7/8 x 15 9/16 in.)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineAlexander H. Bullock Fund

Terms

Object number1995.63

Label TextA man of known culture and artistic eminence, Toyohiko fused naturalism and poetic idealism in his painting. His brushwork is fluent but playful. It demonstrates his virtuosity with the brush. This painting is direct and conveys spontaneity and imaginative suggestion; little is worked out in detail. Toyohiko was an influential teacher. Shibata Zeshin (1807-91) the laquer artist and painter was one of his students. He also participated with other Shijo school artists in illustrating haiku in printed poetic anthologies. Shijo school painters worked in two distinctive ways. One was based on the more intellectual and abstract Nanga style of such artists as Yosa Buson (1716-83; the other on the naturalism of Okyo. The latter had a profound influence on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese painting.ProvenanceIsrael Goldman, London, England

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