| Title |
Korean Folk Art: Painting [008] Minhwa (008) |
| Collection Name and Number |
P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection |
| Photo Number |
Box 60, Korean Course A,235 |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1978 |
| Subject |
Art, Korean--Korea--Seoul--Photographs; Folk art--Korea--Seoul--Photographs; Painting, Korean--Korea--Seoul--Photographs; Animals--Art--Photographs; Tiger--Art--Photographs; Korea; Art; Folk art; Painting |
| Keywords |
Korean culture; Arts and crafts; Arts & crafts; Minhwa; Horang'i; Ch'am-horang'i; Hop'i-do |
| Spatial Coverage |
Korea (South); Seoul (Korea) |
| Description |
Photograph of Korean painting (probably a folk painting or "minhwa") depicting a tiger skin |
| Caption on Slide |
Tiger painting, Seoul, Korea. |
| Additional Information |
Image was scanned from color slide. Note: "Minhwa art refers to the Korean folk art that consists of paintings of mythical figures and other objects in a specific plain, straightforward and naive style."--Wikipedia. Note: "From early times, Koreans believed that...tigers...would protect them from misfortune and calamity...a [tiger (horang'i)] was worshiped as a sacred creature..."--Minhwa: tales of Korean folk paintings by Yoon, Yul-Soo, pages 127-129. Note: Tiger skin painting = hop'i-do --Minhwa: tales of Korean folk paintings by Yoon, Yul-Soo, page 298. Note: Striped tigers = ch'am-horang'i --Minhwa: tales of Korean folk paintings by Yoon, Yul-Soo, page 134. Note: Original caption information provided for this image as: "Tiger Ptg. Emillie Mus. Seoul, Korea" |
| Type |
Image |
| Creator |
Tierney, Lennox |
| Rights Management |
This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6xk8zdr |
| Digitization Specifications |
Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000. |
| Donor |
Tierney, Lennox; Tierney, Catherine |
| Setname |
uum_lctpc |
| ID |
339250 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xk8zdr |
