Chen Hongshou

A unique landscape painting in the existing body of Chen Hongshou’s art, this painting reveals his involvement with the practice of fang (imitation) to achieve creative transformation. Chen acquired the tradition stemming from Dong Yuan of the Five Dynasties, with which he sought an artistic individuality that lends his work an idiosyncratic vision and extraordinary power.

Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).

Year in Review: 1967

The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period. University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (organizer) (November 9, 1971-January 2, 1972); Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (February 11-April 2, 1972).

The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period

The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).

The Colors of Ink

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection

Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652). University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (organizer) (October 25, 2017-January 28, 2018).

Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652)

To-So-Gen-Min, II. Tokyo Imperial Museum, Tokyo, Japan (November 24-December 16, 1928).

Restless Landscape. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (November 9, 1971-January 2, 1972); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (February 12-April 2, 1972).

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12, 2003-July 16, 2003).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 7, 2015-July 7, 2015).

A hanging scroll with ink on silk depicts a vertical landscape with dense, layered strokes. Gnarled trees with textured bark dominate the foreground, where a small figure sits on a rocky ledge. Steep ridges zigzag toward the top, etched with vertical waterfalls and dark, horizontal streaks of foliage. Chinese calligraphy and red seals appear in the upper right (see "Inscriptions"), with more seals in the lower corners.

(Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

The Mountain of Five Cataracts

五洩山

Chen Hongshou 陳洪綬

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五洩山

Chen Hongshou 陳洪綬

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