  About the Artwork
  
  
  Longevity is held in high esteem and is one of the most frequent and popular subjects in Korean art. Enduring eternally and sustaining life, the sun, clouds, water, and mountains are the background for other symbols of long life in a landscape paradise. The pine and bamboo, noted for their hardiness and resiliency, are often compared to venerable old men. Various legends associate cranes, tortoises, and deer with happiness, good luck, and long life. Deer are said to be the only creatures able to find the sacred fungus, a supernatural mushroom of immortality.
  
  
  Title
  Embroidered Screen with Design of Longevity Symbols
  
  
  Artwork Date
  18th century
  
  Artist
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  Life Dates
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  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  Korean
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Eight-panel folding screen; silk embroidery on silk
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 55 1/2 × 144 inches (141 cm × 3 m 65.8 cm)
  Block: 55 1/2 × 18 inches (141 × 45.7 cm)
  Installed (33&quot; wide angles): 55 1/2 × 133 1/2 inches (141 cm × 3 m 39.1 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Embroidery
  
  
  Department
  Asian Art
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Founders Junior Council and the Korean Community
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1985.14
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
