Flowers of Four Seasons, with Poems

A long horizontal handscroll on silk shows flowering plants and rocky outcrops in ink and light color, with peony, orchid and bamboo spread along its length. Columns of calligraphy frame the left and right ends, suggesting the poems named in the title.

Look closer: Columns of small poem calligraphy run along the far left edge of the scroll.

Artist

Wang Guxiang

Date

1531

Medium

handscroll; ink and light color on silk

Source

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Size

3400 × 141 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund