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Seasonal Landscapes: Summer
About the Artwork
Now comprising three scrolls, this composition was originally a set of four paintings depicting the seasons. The set is among the most important of the artist’s surviving works. Each painting was executed in the gyō mode, indicating a speedy brush with rounded strokes. The terms shin (formal), sō (cursive), and gyō (semicursive), borrowed from calligraphy terminology, are terms commonly used by connoisseurs to describe brushwork in ink paintings.
Provenance
?–1988: (Heisando Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1988–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 21-September 3, 2017).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Kano Hideyori (Japanese, active mid- to late 1500s)
- Date
- mid- to late 1500s
- Medium
- hanging scroll, ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 63.9 x 35.7 cm (25 3/16 x 14 1/16 in.); Mounted: 154.2 x 49.5 cm (60 11/16 x 19 1/2 in.); with knobs: 154.2 x 54 cm (60 11/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 1988.13.1
More by Kano Hideyori 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-00010014
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