Artist
Bokurin Guan
(墨林愚庵; fl. 15th century)
Catalogue information
Muromachi period
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
64.4 x 30.8 cm (25 3/8 x 12 1/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Watanabe Kazan
Literature
Matsushita Takaaki 1960, no. 101
; 1960
Muromachi suibokuga (Suiboku painting of the Muromachi period). Tokyo: Muromachi Suibokuga Kankōkai.
Murase 1975, addendum no. 107
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Shimada Shūjirō 1979, no. 14
; 1979
[Editor]. Suibokuga (Ink painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 3. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.
Ford 1985, fig. 5
; Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 17
; 1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.
Avitabile 1990, no. 33
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Brinker and Kanazawa 1996, fig. 128
; 1996
Zen: Masters of Meditation in Images and Writings. Translated by Andreas Leisinger. Artibus Asiae, Supplementum, 40. Zurich: Artibus Asiae.
Murase 2000, no. 57
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 39.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Ink Painting of the Muromachi and Momoyama Periods
- Hanging scrolls
- Works of the Muromachi period
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 115 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Seals
Guan
; Bokurin Guan