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
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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...
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.
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.