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Fishing Alone on a Cold River
(Japan and Korea )
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.
Provenance
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Ishinosuke Mizutani, Oriental Art Sekisen, Kyoto [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by purchase.
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 9/20/1995 | Examination | examined for exhibition |
| 1/8/2002 | Examination | examined for exhibition |
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Image H: 51 7/8 x W: 18 1/4 in. (131.8 x 46.3 cm); Overall H: 30 1/2 x W: 25 1/2 in. (77.47 x 64.77 cm); W of scroll only: 23 1/4 in. (59 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Ambassador and Mrs. William J. Sebald Fund, 1986
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
35.134