Landscapes
1892
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1892
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscapes is a 1892 unspecified by Ren Yu, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see four hanging scrolls with landscapes, each showing a different season. These paintings are interesting because they were made by an artist who struggled with opium addiction, which affected his work. This is evident in the varying quality of his paintings. To learn more about the style and themes of these landscapes, look up the subject: china, qing dynasty (1644-1911).
This set of four seasonal landscape hanging scrolls are by Ren Yu. He was the youngest, most eccentric, and least prolific of the Four Rens, a family of prominent painters in Shanghai during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Perhaps due to his opium habit and subsequent financial difficulties, Ren Yu tended to be lackadaisical in his work. The few remaining high-quality paintings hint at his artistic potential lost to opium. Though Ren’s premature death left his artistic promise unfulfilled, his paintings were acquired and donated to the museum by Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), a wealthy…
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