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Soga Shōhaku
Horsescirca 1760-1765

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Six-panel folding screen, ink wash on paper, depicting a herd of pale horses surging through wind and water with dark birds and swirling clouds

Soga Shōhaku, Horses, circa 1760-1765, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Jerry Louise and Robert Johnson, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Soga Shōhaku
Japan, 1730-1781
Title
Horses
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
circa 1760-1765
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
One from a pair of six-panel screens; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 61 1/8 × 142 5/8 in. (155.26 × 362.27 cm) Mount: 68 1/8 × 149 1/4 × 3/4 in. (173.04 × 379.1 × 1.91 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Jerry Louise and Robert Johnson
Accession Number
M.81.204.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Phil Freshman. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Report, July 1, 1981-June 30, 1983. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.

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