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Trace the pale bands of cloud and falling water between the stacked peaks, then find the groves of tall trees in the foreground.
Nakabayashi Chikutō dated this landscape 1853, the year he died. Japanese literati painters could not travel to China and learned its painting from printed manuals and imported works; the Minneapolis Institute of Art calls Chikutō a fourth-generation painter of this nanga tradition. Here, in ink alone on silk, layered peaks rise through bands of cloud, with groves of trees below.
Hanging scroll; ink on silk · Painting: 110.1 × 40.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Trees in the Clouds on Layered Mountains (Jûzan umbokuzu)
- Artist
- Nakabayashi Chikutô Japanese, 1776–1853
- Date
- 1853
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on silk
- Dimensions
- Painting: 110.1 × 40.8 cm (43 5/16 × 16 1/16 in.); With mounting: 191.2 × 56.9 cm (75 1/4 × 22 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Mrs. G. William Reynolds. Purchased with funds provided by
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1776–1853
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