Calligraphy (reverse)
Unknown Artist
late 1800s
Medium
Ten-panel folding screen affixed with album leaves (obverse), calligraphy (reverse), ink and color on silk
Dimensions
image: 117.7 × 33.5 cm · panel: 164.5 × 43.6 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Gordon K. Mott
Accession Number
1998.286.b
About this artwork
The front of this screen features an assortment of subjects: birds and flowers, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life, mostly in monochromatic ink with light colors. The screen’s reverse side conveys a number of classical poems about the fleeting beauty of the four seasons. Traditionally, only one side of a folding screen bears painted or embroidered images, since these were used as a background furnishing. In Korean houses by the 1800s and early 1900s, however, two-sided folding screens becam...