Ike TaigaJapanese, 1723–1776Landscape with River View
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- 3 days ago
- In this state since
- Sep 25, 2026
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
This painting, with its clusters of pine needles and profuse twigs on leafless trees, exhibits Ike Taiga’s penchant for decoratively patterned brushwork. Typical of his playfully eccentric compositions are the impossibly tall pines and curiously bulging foreground rocks.
Taiga became a professional painter at the age of fifteen when he opened a fan shop in Kyoto in order to support his widowed mother. He studied imported woodblock books featuring Chinese literati-style painting, but he also sought out other artists—including émigré Chinese monks—for painting instruction. Taiga’s artistic brilliance lay in his ability to free himself from the narrow confines of the Chinese scholar painting tradition, although it served as his fundamental inspiration.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Particulars
- Accession number
- 2015.79.130
In the catalog
Sources
- Minneapolis Institute of Art: the museum's own open data · fetched 3 days ago
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — public domain
