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Cranes with Pine and Bamboo

Kanō School 狩野派

Long, horizontal painting made of twelve vertical panels, depicting cranes with brown and white feathers standing in different positions, with a pine tree growing on the right side and thick vertical stalks of green bamboo on the left. Rocky outcroppings of brown and green along the lower edge. — Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper; 66 1/8 × 146 1/2 × 5/8 in (left), 67 1/2 × 145 1/2 × 3/4 in (right). Public Domain

Artist
Kanō School

Subject Area
Creatures of the Sky

Artistic Techniques
Gold, Gold Leaf

More about this art at
Minneapolis Institute of Art

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