Object Details
Artist
Yun Yong-gu
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Each (frame): 64 × 18 inches (162.6 × 45.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Kang Collection, New York
Object
Number
2011.037 a,b
Yun Yong-gu was a celebrated calligrapher of haengseo (semi-cursive) and haeseo (block) writing styl(…)
Yun Yong-gu was a celebrated calligrapher of haengseo (semi-cursive) and haeseo (block) writing style. He also excelled in painting bamboo, orchids, and landscapes. A high-ranking court official of the Joseon dynasty, after Japan’s invasion of Korea and subsequent colonization of the peninsula in 1910, he left the public realm to live as a hermit in the mountains for the next thirty years. Although the Japanese offered him the title of baron, he refused and spent his time pursuing calligraphy, painting, and music. At the end of his life, he participated in a major exhibition, Famous Calligraphers and Painters of the Joseon Dynasty.The text translates as:Hidden in a misty mountain is the abode of a hermit,near the border of the immortals.Mourning for a parent in the harshness of frost and dewis a child with a sorrowful filial heart.
