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Kano Tanyu

(Japanese, 1602–1674)

Snow Landscape and Boat

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Object Details

Artist

Kano Tanyu

Date

1669

Medium

Hanging scroll: ink and colors on silk

Dimensions

Image: 10 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (26 x 38.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Professor and Mrs. Robert J. Smith

Object
Number

64.0920

Grandson of Kano Eitoku and one of the prominent members of the conservative Kano school of artists,(…)

Grandson of Kano Eitoku and one of the prominent members of the conservative Kano school of artists, Tanyu was, at the age of fifteen, named official painter to the Tokugawa shogunate. A versatile painter who could produce grand, large-scale works illustrating Confucian themes for a castle interior, or colorful compositions depicting the fury of battle, he was equally adept at intimate suibokuga (black-ink) painting. In this example, Tanyu sensitively distills the landscape elements to their essence to convey the serenity of a quiet winter landscape.

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