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Landscape of the Four Seasons
by Yi Sumun
About the Artwork
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.
Provenance
?–1976: (Victor L. Hauge [1919–2013], Falls Church, VA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1976-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, -present
Exhibition history
Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977). The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011). From Dreaming to Hiking: Korean Landscape Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-September 29, 2024).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Yi Sumun (Korean, b. c. 1404)
- Date
- late 1400s
- Medium
- One of a pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 108 x 361.3 cm (42 1/2 x 142 1/4 in.); Painting only: 92.7 x 348.7 cm (36 1/2 x 137 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Korean Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1976.92.2
More by Yi Sumun in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009550
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