Landscape of the Four Seasons
Yi Sumun (Korean, b. c. 1404)
late 1400s
Medium
One of a pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper
Dimensions
108 × 361.3 cm · painting only: 92.7 × 348.7 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1976.92.2
Tags
male
About this artwork
Yi Sumun is believed to have been a Korean painter who migrated to Japan in 1424 at the age of 20. This pair of screens is the artist’s most important composition in this format. Viewed from right to left, the screens show the passage of the four seasons, a popular theme in medieval Japanese ink painting.