Plum Trees
Asian Art
MEDIUM
Six-panel folding screen: ink on silk
DATES
late 19th – early 20th century
DYNASTY
Joseon dynasty
PERIOD
Empire period
DIMENSIONS
image, each: 28 1/8 × 10 5/8 in. (71.5 × 27 cm)
Overall: 62 3/16 × 101 9/16 in. (158 × 258 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Asian Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
L2022.2.6
CREDIT LINE
Lent by the Carroll Family Collection
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Six discontinuous compositions depicting branches of flowering plum trees, each image accompanied by a poem in Chinese characters (to be translated).
The plum trees are gnarled and crooked, reaching across the panels in various directions with the ink work emphasizing a sharp contrast between the angularity of the branches and the roundness of the plum blossom buds. The artist also contrasts the "flying white" of a drier brush stroke used for older branches of the tree with the wetter brush strokes used for younger, greener parts of the tree.
The paintings do not appear to have been signed or sealed.
Plums are among the first trees to blossom in the late winter, and are as such an important emblem of rebirth and hope.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Plum Trees, late 19th – early 20th century. Six-panel folding screen: ink on silk, image, each: 28 1/8 × 10 5/8 in. (71.5 × 27 cm). Lent by the Carroll Family Collection, L2022.2.6. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Image courtesy of Joseph Carroll, L2022.2.6.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, L2022.2.6.jpg. Image courtesy of Joseph Carroll, 2022
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