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Painting of One Hundred Themes

Painting of One Hundred Themes

late 1800s
Overall: 117.7 x 335 cm (46 5/16 x 131 7/8 in.); Painting only: 164.5 x 43.6 cm (64 3/4 x 17 3/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The way of displaying small images of various subjects became one of the most popular type of painting toward the end of the 19th century.

Description

The front of this screen features an assortment of subjects: birds and flowers, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life, mostly in monochromatic ink with light colors. The screen’s reverse side conveys a number of classical poems about the fleeting beauty of the four seasons. Traditionally, only one side of a folding screen bears painted or embroidered images, since these were used as a background furnishing. In Korean houses by the 1800s and early 1900s, however, two-sided folding screens became noticeably popular, possibly inspired by Japanese double-sided folding screens, which mainly served as room dividers in Japanese households.
  • ?-1955
    Collection in Pusan, Korea, to Gordon K. Mott
    1955-1998
    Gordon K. Mott [1914-1998], Lakewood, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1998-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1998.286