Untitled (Mountain Pass)
Style of Seigai Sakurama, Japanese, 1786 - 1851
19th century
Ink and light color on silk hanging scroll
Overall: 77 3/8 × 16 1/2 in. (196.5 × 41.9 cm)
Height: 46 1/8 in. (117.2 cm)
Width: 11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Helen Holden Wood, Class of 1934W
2013.42.5
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, at lower right: Seigai, with artist's seal
Label
On the lower left of this painting, two scholars in Chinese robes lead their horses deeper into the mountains. Immersed in conversation, they may not notice the vista unfurling beyond them. The rocky cliffs in the foreground surge upward, directing the viewer’s gaze to an eccentric, arch-shaped mountain range across the upper half of the painting.
Sakurama Segai accentuates the vitality of nature through his unique treatment of space. As a follower of the Nanga School, Sakurama gained acclaim for his creative portrayals of the reclusive life of scholars in 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
Course History
ARTH 64, The Japanese Painting Tradition, Allen Hockley, Spring 2014
Provenance
Purchased by Arthur Lewis Wood (1912-2011, Class of 1934), in Tokyo, Japan, May-June 1957; to Helen "Heidi" Holden Wood (1916-2013), Hanover, New Hampshire, 2011; bequeathed to present collection, 2013.
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