Artists

c. 1800–after 1857 · 1 work

• Ukiyo-e

1790–1848 · 8 works

• Japanese (culture or style)

1524–1593 · 1 work

• Korean painting

Kim Si’s snowscape places a scholar’s retreat inside a larger arrangement of trees, water and mountains. The small figures ask for close attention, while the pale areas of snow establish the landscape’s structure. This early Joseon painting gives the setting as much importance as the people within it.

active 1639–50 · 4 works

• Japanese painting

Kitagawa Sōsetsu arranges flowers and grasses across screens and hanging scrolls. His large paired screens spread clusters of plants through an open field, while smaller works bring blossoms and leaves closer. In Summer Flowers, diluted ink and color pool inside the leaves, and fine gold lines mark their veins. Cleveland connects the screens with the Maeda family’s grand residences, where paintings could shape the setting of a room.

1643–1682 · 4 works

• Japanese painting

1843–1917 · 7 works

Socrates and Alcibiades, Job and his friends, and Leonora Christina in prison. Historical and imagined encounters sit beside a self-portrait and a flower seller.

1757–1820 · 7 works

• Japanese (culture or style)

Active mid-1500s · 4 works

• South Asian painting

A wooden parrot, a message and a mysterious fruit set these stories in motion. Rooms and terraces become stages for their encounters.

1854–1933 · 8 works

• Realism
• Symbolism

A woman stands at open doors; workers dig a drain or whitewash a house. Look at how paths, windows and stretches of land connect figures with their surroundings.

1858–1925 · 3 works

c. 1494–1533 · 8 works

• Northern Renaissance

1693–1722 or later · 1 work

A vase gathers flowers above fruit. Haverman’s painting invites you to move from the overall arrangement to the delicate surfaces of petals, leaves and grapes.

1647–1717 · 1 work

1840–1916 · 2 works

1774–1821 · 1 work

A young woman pauses with a drawing board in her lap. Villers’s portrait places her beside a bright window, creating an encounter between the woman at work and the viewer.

c. 1430/50–1491 · 8 works

• Late Gothic and Early Renaissance

1803–1848 · 7 works

• Romanticism

Start at the artist’s window, then travel to Copenhagen, Athens and Palermo. These paintings frame people and places through architecture and carefully chosen viewpoints.

1733–1795 · 4 works

• Japanese painting

Maruyama Ōkyo painted in Kyoto across a range of subjects and formats. These works include a literary gathering, paired seasonal landscapes and a solitary heron against gold. The spacious arrangements let a bird, a moon or a bank of snow become the point around which the rest of the scene gathers.

1817–1907 · 5 works

Mary Altha Nims made drawings and watercolors of buildings, landscapes, flowers and insects. Her softly shaded architectural scenes contrast with the sharply defined leaves and bright colors of her botanical subjects. Seen together, they offer different ways of turning careful observation into a clear and orderly composition.

1842–1899 · 2 works

1752–1811 · 4 works

• Japanese painting

Matsumura Goshun’s paintings connect landscape with literature. A low screen spreads a Chinese mountain range across adjoining panels, while other works present sworn brothers or episodes from Japanese essays. The formats offer different ways to look: following a landscape continuously or moving from one small scene to the next.

1870–1943 · 8 works

1857–1920 · 8 works

1847–1935 · 1 work