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Okamoto Shūki
Birds and Flowers19th century

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Chinese handscroll painting in ink and light color wash on cream paper, depicting a scholar's rock with grasses, a butterfly in flight, and a pink flowering plant
Ink and light color handscroll segment depicting magnolia blossoms, pine branches, a dark bird perched on a bare branch, and a rock with grasses, rendered in fluid brushwork on pale silk or paper.
Horizontal hanging scroll in ink and light color, depicting a red-crowned crane in flight with wings fully extended, rendered in loose ink wash brushwork; pine branches with needle clusters at right edge, soft gray washes suggesting clouds or distant hills behind.
Ink and color on paper handscroll, a white bird with wings fully extended in flight, rendered in pale blue-green washes with loose, expressive brushwork against an off-white ground.
Horizontal handscroll painting on silk, flowering plant with pink blossoms and blue-green leaves at left, a small bird with gray and white plumage perched on a bare branch at right, rendered in loose ink and wash with delicate brushwork on a pale ground.
Horizontal handscroll painting in ink and light color, depicting trailing morning glory vines with pale blue blossoms and broad green leaves, a small insect at upper right, rendered in delicate brushwork on cream-colored paper with gold silk borders.
Horizontal hanging scroll, ink on paper, depicting a white egret among lotus leaves and stems, with fluid brushwork in varying shades of gray and black against an unpainted ground.
Horizontal hanging scroll, ink on paper, depicting flowering plum branches extending left and clusters of flowering plants with grasses at lower right, rendered in varied ink washes with fluid brushwork on a pale ground.
Handscroll painting in ink and light color on paper; at left, pink blossoms and slender grasses rendered in loose brushwork; at right, a bird in flight among green leaves and small yellow flowers, depicted with fluid gray ink washes.
Horizontal handscroll painting in ink and light color, a small bird with blue-green plumage perched on a slender branch at left, flowering plants and foliage rendered in delicate brushwork across a pale ground.
Horizontal hanging scroll with ink and color on paper, depicting a pale pink spider lily at left and cluster of red flowers with green leaves at right, connected by sweeping dark ink brushstrokes suggesting rock or branch; vertical columns of Chinese calligraphy and two red seal impressions at upper left.

Okamoto Shūki, Birds and Flowers, 19th century (alternate view), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Joe Brotherton, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Okamoto Shūki
Japan, 1807-1862
Title
Birds and Flowers
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
19th century
Medium
Handscroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Mount: 11 7/8 x 380 in. (30.2 x 1,059.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Joe Brotherton
Accession Number
M.77.146
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Dorfman, John. "The Zen of Painting: Morris Graves' mystical art is on view at LACMA." Arts & Antiques 39, no.4 (2016): 60-63.

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