Cover art · winter

Winter and Summer Flowers

Kaihō Yūshō (Japanese, 1533–1615), c. 1600.

Winter and Summer Flowers
Winter and Summer Flowers — Cleveland Museum of Art

Using it on a cover

The print file prints up to 11.3 x 5.2 in at 300 ppi — fine for smaller trims or inset artwork, but too small to fill a 6 x 9 in cover at 300 ppi. Wider than a 6 x 9 cover: crop about 69% of the width, or use it as a wraparound across back and spine.

About the work

White camellias bloom behind a large pine in the right screen and blue morning glories creep through bamboo in the left screen of this composition. The mountains and bridge suggest a continuous landscape, but the paintings actually juxtapose flowers of winter and summer, with time progressing from right to left. Kaihō Yūshō painted similar landscapes for Zen temples in Kyoto.

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