Korean artist biography

You would think that a painter who has a large museum named for him (The Gyeomjae Jeong Seon Memorial Museum), created a painting that is identified as one of the National Treasures of South Korea and changed the way nature was painted in the Orient would be someone more of us Westerners would know.

Jeong Seon and his pen name was Gyeomjae (humble study), may be new to many of us but his contributions to the art world are timeless.

Unfortunately, there's very little available information about the man himself.

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What's available online is both repetitive and somewhat contradictory. (The Wikipedia article on this famous artist does not cite any sources and tends to contain information that contradicts information included in materials written in Korea.) The museum, which is named in his honor and houses many of his works, has a website.

Unfortunately, they used pictures for all of their Korean language text, leaving no way for this North Carolina gal to translate