Floor plan

South wing: ThemesWinter, room 2

Winter, room 2

Hanging scroll

The works in this room are listed below.

Works in this room

Snow simplifies a landscape and makes every colour in it count. These are winter scenes from several centuries and both sides of the world: skaters on frozen canals, snow on temple roofs, a road gone quiet in the cold.

First room, north wall

  1. Hanging scroll
    Chinese landscape: winterStyle of Kano Tan'yu, 18th century?Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution