Palm Tree

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Artist Soga Shōhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781)

Culture Japanese

Title Palm Tree

Date 18th century

Medium Ink on paper

Dimensions Overall: 83 x 26 1/4 in. (210.8 x 66.7 cm)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 72.71.1

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Soga Shōhaku belongs to a group of eighteenth-century Japanese painters called “eccentrics” by virtue of their idiosyncratic painting styles (and often matching personalities). Here, Shōhaku’s blunt, bold brushstrokes, compressed angle of view, and dynamic contrast between the saturated black ink of the fronds and the pearl gray washes of the trunk and background make this painting of a palm tree seem to explode off the paper. Judging from the great number of his surviving paintings that survive, Shōhaku was prolific as well as innovative.

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"Palm Tree | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2024. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=72.71.1