Landscape
Nanga School, Japanese
late 19th-early 20th century
Scroll; colored inks on paper
Overall: 75 3/8 × 16 3/8 in. (191.5 × 41.6 cm)
Overall: 54 1/8 × 11 5/8 in. (137.5 × 29.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Charles E. Griffith, Class of 1915W
P.966.111.14
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
On view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower right: seal and inscriptions
Label
This idealized landscape painting is likely based on the artist’s imagination according to the popular tradition of Nanga painting.
Nanga 南画, which translates as “Southern painting,” is a term coined originally in China to refer to the expressive amateur style of ink painting practiced by scholar-official artists. Starting in the 17th century, Japanese artists embraced this trend and developed their own take on Nanga painting. In these landscapes, we see the ideal life of the scholar as wanderer and dweller in the living force of nature.
From the 2024 exhibition Attitude of Coexistence: Non-Humans in East Asian Art, curated by Haely Chang, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Associate Curator of East Asian Art
Exhibition History
Attitude of Coexistence: Non-humans in East Asian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 16, 2024-March 1, 2025.
Provenance
Collected by Sarah H. Giffith (1894-1966); given to present collection, 1966.
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