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Landscape with Woodcutters Returning Home

Landscape with Woodcutters Returning Home

1200s
(1127-1279)
hanging scroll, ink on silk
Image: 124.5 x 58.3 cm (49 x 22 15/16 in.); Overall: 203.2 x 81.3 cm (80 x 32 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1988.20
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

A landscape with identical measurements in a Japanese private collection is also inscribed by Xuzhou. They may have been a pair of flanking scrolls in a triptych.

Description

In late Song dynasty Chinese Chan Buddhist temples, paintings of landscapes, animals, or plants frequently took the place of deities. This hanging scroll features the humble life of woodcutters in nature an is in keeping with the Chan emphasis on simplicity and on the spiritual benefits of manual labor. executed in broad, quickly applied washes and punctuated by dark dots and texture strokes, the work is inscribed by Xuzhou Pudu, a priest at Wanshou temple near the Southern Song capital at Lin'an (modern Hangzhou).
  • ?–1988
    (Heisando Company, Limited, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1988–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華: 特别展: クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. p. 46, cat. no. 24
    Little, Stephen. An Introduction to Chinese Paintings in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles : Art Catalogues : LACMA, 2017. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 14–15
  • Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-July 16, 2003).
    Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).
    Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).
  • {{cite web|title=Landscape with Woodcutters Returning Home|url=false|author=|year=1200s|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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