Cycad

Ike Taiga

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This small painting of a cycad, a plant found throughout tropical East and Southeast Asia, was once part of a collection of calligraphy and paintings by Ike Taiga that had been pasted onto a pair of folding screens. Later removed from the screens and mounted as hanging scrolls, the paintings included works on album leaves and folding fans. Mrs. Burke acquired eight of them. The present work is thought to date to Taiga’s early thirties.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.

Metropolitan Museum of Art