Pine Pavilion in the Spring Dawn

1930s

Not on view

Ōkōchi Yakō first learned to paint in Kyoto with Kikuchi Keigetsu 菊池契月 (1879–1955), a Nihonga artist affiliated with the Imperial Household before turning to a study of Nanga painting, especially the works of Tomioka Tessai (1837–1924) and Uragami Gyokudō (1745–1820). Ōkōchi’s study of these earlier masters of literati painting can be felt in this small picture of a rural retreat amid a grove of spindly pines, in which the artist captures the form and surface texture of the mountains and other rock forms with dry, detailed brushwork before highlighting them in deep azurite blue and malachite green, pigments that are often used in landscape paintings to suggest a paradisiacal locale.

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松楼春暁 (Shōrō shungyō)
Title: Pine Pavilion in the Spring Dawn
Artist: Ōkōchi Yakō 大河内夜江 (Japanese, 1892–1957)
Period: Shōwa period (1926–89)
Date: 1930s
Culture: Japan
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions: Image: 21 7/8 × 28 1/8 in. (55.5 × 71.5 cm)
Overall with mounting: 64 15/16 × 34 1/2 in. (165 × 87.6 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2021
Object Number: 2021.398.31
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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