Pine Pavilion in the Spring Dawn

Ōkōchi Yakō 大河内夜江 Japanese

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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.

Pine Pavilion in the Spring Dawn, Ōkōchi Yakō 大河内夜江 (Japanese, 1892–1957), Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Japan

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Pine Pavilion in the Spring Dawn, Ōkōchi Yakō 大河内夜江 (Japanese, 1892–1957), Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Japan
Pine Pavilion in the Spring Dawn, Ōkōchi Yakō 大河内夜江 (Japanese, 1892–1957), Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Japan

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