Fishing Alone on a Cold River

Description This winter scene shows Chikuto at his most restrained, foregoing the rhythmic and compositional complexities of his most ambitious paintings. It is a distillation, a work in which the minimal means are essential to the mood. Chikuto took classical painting as his model. The composition--nearby trees, water, distant mountain--and the spare brushwork deliberately evoke paintings by the 14th-century Chinese master Ni Tsan. They are also intended to convey the feeling of winter.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
9/20/1995	Examination	examined for exhibition
1/08/2002	Examination	examined for exhibition

Provenance Ishinosuke Mizutani, Oriental Art Sekisen, Kyoto [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase with funds provided by the Ambassador and Mrs. William J. Sebald Fund, 1986