Collections: Asian Art: Landscape

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Landscape

• Artist: Kim U-beom, Korean
• Medium: Ink and light color on paper
• Place Made: Korea
• Dates: 19th century
• Dynasty: Joseon Dynasty
• Dimensions: 30 5/16 x 13 in. (77 x 33 cm)
• Collections: Asian Art
• Museum Location: This item is on view in Asian Galleries, The Arts of Korea, 2nd Floor
• Accession Number: 84.197.3
• Credit Line: Gift of John M. Lyden
• Image: Overall, 84.197.3.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Kim U-beom (Korean). Landscape, 19th century. Ink and light color on paper, 30 5/16 x 13 in. (77 x 33 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of John M. Lyden, 84.197.3 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 84.197.3.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: The painting depicts a scholar riding in a boat and looking up at the fallen plum blossoms on a cliff. The poem inscribed on the painting reads, "Riding on a boat, passing the stream where Ziling once passed, I realized that the plum blossom has already fallen. I sigh and write this song, as I am like those fallen flowers." However, the mannered style of the painting does not successfully carry the feeling of the poem. Given the presence of the seal "Seokha," this painting is probably a work of Kim U-beom. There is another painter, Jeong Jin-cheol, whose pen name is also Seokha, but he specialized in decorative flower and bird paintings. The painting is most like an early work of Kim U-beom. From "Korean Art Collection in the Brooklyn Museum" catalogue. From Accession Card Landscape Scholar in rustic boat beside high cliff with rocky shore beyond. Four-line poem with signature and two seals above. Condition: very minor stains throughout.