Some painters have love affairs with their models, others with mountains. Paul Cézanne made the Provençal peak Mont Sainte-Victoire his lifelong friend; Beirut-born poet and painter Etel Adnan found her companion in California’s Mount Tamalpais. For the postwar Korean painter Yoo Youngkuk (1916–2002), it was the Taebaek Mountains—which form the eastern spine of the Korean peninsula and rise above his coastal hometown of Uljin—that would guide him to his mature works after 1964, as he refined the colors and planes in his abstract canvases to echo their stolid majesty. It took Yoo more than 25 years, however, from 1937 when he first began showing his works in Tokyo, to make his long journey home to the mountains that would become his ultimate motif.  

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