Nature in Monochrome: Birds and Flowers in Japanese Ink Painting –– Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/nature-in-monochrome-birds-and-flowers-in-japanese-ink-painting
February 9, 2019 – October 27, 2019 | G221, 222, 223 | Free Exhibition Birds and flowers are popular motifs in all types of Japanese art, but it was in the 1300s that Japanese painters began painting pictures of these subjects in ink alone. Painters took up the brush to create small vignettes of nature in shades of black on paper or silk, inspired by Chinese paintings then being imported to Japan
hanging scrolls; ink on paper, 15 1/16 × 22 3/4 in., Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift
