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Night Herons, 1930s

Creator: Ikegami Shuho
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Ikegami Shuho
Night Herons, 1930s
Two-panel folding screen; ink, mineral colors, and shell powder on paper
Size 59¾ x 55½ in. (152 x 141 cm)
T-4759
Signed at lower right Shuho with a seal

A native of Nagano Prefecture, Ikegami Shuho trained in Tokyo under the leading painter Araki Kanpo (1831–1915) and was first selected for the Bunten national exhibition in its second year, 1908. He would continue to show at the Bunten and its successor exhibitions more than thirty times, right up until the year before his death, winning many special prizes along the way. Shuho was extraordinarily versatile in terms of both style and subject matter but especially during the 1930s loved to paint groups of birds, mostly domestic fowl such as chickens and turkeys or, less frequently, wild birds such as the black-crowned night heron seen here, in deftly spaced, dynamic social groups and many different poses. While very much a painting of its time, this screen also reflects the patient observation of nature that was a hallmark of the Shijō school of which the artist’s father, Ikegami Shuka, had been a member.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1920-1949
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Asian Art
Incollect Reference #:	713395

Dimensions

W.	55.5 in;	H.	59.5 in;
W.	140.97 cm;	H.	151.13 cm;

Message from Seller:

Thomsen gallery, located in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, offers important Japanese paintings and works of art to collectors and museums worldwide. The gallery specializes in Japanese screens and scrolls; in early Japanese tea ceramics from the medieval through the Edo periods; in masterpieces of ikebana bamboo baskets; and in gold lacquer objects.