Images

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=8D1ED1ADB1B44E3B940DF78BE17A02BFDD347DDF56BBB33F031129C2DC2BB737&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=7&f=1933.220_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=A4D60E21E649917F9E1EEAF3E94B249AE802301831DA7491ECC3C18C826D9C07&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=8D1ED1ADB1B44E3B37CE903F38B0372506FA1030F52F36DCFA4E041D28EA3208&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det01_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=6320B94ECEB176C0D999DB4C7267D1B5D887CC87D77BEAD1BCEB6F603C73FA65&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det01_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=8D1ED1ADB1B44E3B151047F993C07B0F0419A17CD0C9435FF25D7E547510DE95&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det02_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=16544715E80351E659B543BF75E9244B97BA2C5272C5852923F23F0688528DB4&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det02_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=6D92B2DE6DB43010CBD20F3187A91B9A1D91D34A9A83856ABBC979254491AB7D&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det03_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=16544715E80351E6730F9FBDD0094D0964DF437A0F3CFABC7CDE50D95E279F74&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det03_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=6D92B2DE6DB430107A44E35479A8C84F75B813B9FEE832CFA1CBD4AF8832BD89&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det04_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=0B7EF8C07F5A47700FF6F4C5C9B5E82F72951F56E6FCE94C2E7731BF6B9C261C&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det04_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=0B7EF8C07F5A477021C92F2E4C33A5EFE77C3B80A684ACBD5FA4612655B1E988&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det05_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=6025B7DCAD5C077754A78E80360C891852759F820A64FF4490B398E3BD4015BE&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det06_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=6025B7DCAD5C0777E263E27F4C3A1D50A99DB7759A6F0A6128E561253D7D47E4&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det07_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=6025B7DCAD5C0777AAC16F97CFB61724A80A0233A2A5BEDE499844F3C4FCB47F&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det08_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=7B1269CCD9E450B9D1045A1E560B1D3B52D9C263A75D40AEE98CB097639EE479&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det09_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=7B1269CCD9E450B99104D5F9D3E36D6A83638BF298DEBAB8D434B17B681682BB&s=24247294&se=2138652943&v=1&f=%5C1933.220det10_o2.jpg

Additional Views

Apr 15, 2004

Jul 29, 2010

Cloudy Mountains

雲山圖

1130

Mi Youren 米友仁

(Chinese, 1072–1151)

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Handscroll; ink and color on silk

Image: 43.7 x 192.6 cm (17 3/16 x 75 13/16 in.); Overall: 45.5 x 646.8 cm (17 15/16 x 254 5/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1933.220

Location

not on view

Did you know?

The handscroll’s multicolored silk brocade cover has a title label and a sticker left from when it was lent to the 1935–36 International Exhibition of Chinese Art at the Royal Academy in London.

Description

Inscription

7 seals unidentified

Inscription

A separate scroll containing six colophons on Cloudy Mountains exists; the inscribers are Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 (1866–1940), Naito Torajiro 內藤虎次郎 (1866–1934), Nagao Ko 長尾甲 (1864–1942), and Wu Changshuo 吳昌碩 (1844–1927). Naito Torajiro alone wrote three colophons.

Provenance

Zigu 子榖 [mid-1600s]

Xisan 錫三 of Yang xing zhai 養性齋 [likely 1800s]

Li Zaixian 李在銛 [early 1900s]

Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 [1866–1940]

Yamamoto Teijiro 山本悌二郞 [1870–1937], Tokyo, Japan

?–1933

(Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1933–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Tō Sō Gen Min meigaten-gō [唐宋元明名画展号]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Asahi Shinbun Hakkōjo, 1928. p. 56

"Part II. Eighteenth Annual Report of the Cleveland Museum of Art 1933." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 21, no. 2 (1934): 1-15. Mentioned: p. 4 www.jstor.org

The Chinese Exhibition; A Commemorative Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, November 1935-March 1936. London: Faber and Faber, 1936. Mentioned; cat. no. 1140, p. 48

Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition: June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1936. cat. no. 382

Pacific Cultures, Department of Fine Arts, Division of Pacific Cultures. San Francisco, CA: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. Reproduced: cat. no. 126

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. Mentioned: cat. no. 15; Reproduced: p.32, 33 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 854 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 258 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 258 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 341 archive.org

Lee, Sherman E. "River Village: Fisherman's Joy." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vol. 66, No. 7 (Oct., 1979). Reproduced: p. 271-288, fig. 11 www.jstor.org

Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. Reproduced: cat. no. 24, pp. 42-44

Harrist, Robert E. "Watching Clouds Rise: A Tang Dynasty Couplet and Its Illustration in Song Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 7 (1991): 301-23. Mentioned: p.323, p. 313 www.jstor.org

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. Reproduced: pp. 38-39, cat. no. 18

Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. Reproduced: fig. 3, pp. 98-100

Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: pp. 50-55

Burnett, Katharine P. "A New Look at a New Look: Painting and Theory of Seventeenth-Century China." Little, Stephen. In 17th-century Chinese paintings from the Tsao family collection. Stephen Little, ed., 130-167. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich, Germany; DelMonico Books, 2016. Reproduced: pp. 158-159

Moser, Jeffrey. "Mist as Method." Manual Issue 9 (Fall 2017): 16-29. Reproduced: p. 26, fig. 6

Hai, Willow Weilan. "Mountains of China: Legends and Civilization." Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer's Lens. Willow Weilan Hai, ed., 11-41. New York: China Institute, 2018. Reproduced: p. 31

Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. Reproduced: p. 82, fig. 42

Chaves, Jonathan. The Chinese painter as poet. New York, NY: China Institute Gallery, China Institute, 2000. Reproduced: cat. no. 2, pp. 34-35, p. 132

Exhibition history

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

The International Exhibition of Chinese Art. Royal Academy of Art, London, England (November 1935-March 1936).

Pacific Cultures, China. Golden Gate International Exhibition, San Francisco, CA (1939).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4-July 22, 2003).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

Exhibition of the Month: The Romantic Spirit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 29-May 5, 1952).

Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).

Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-April 5, 1981).

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

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

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).

The Chinese Painter as Poet. China Institute Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 14-December 17, 2000).

Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).

Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 14, 2017-February 5, 2018).

Cite this page

{{cite web|title=Cloudy Mountains|url=https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.220|author=Mi Youren|year=1130|access-date=05 June 2023|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Contact us

The information about this object, including provenance, may not be currently accurate. If you notice a mistake or have additional information about this object, please email collectionsdata@clevelandart.org.

To request more information about this object, study images, or bibliography, contact the Ingalls Library Reference Desk.

All images and data available through Open Access can be downloaded for free. For images not available through Open Access, a detail image, or any image with a color bar, request a digital file from Image Services.

You are here:

Images

Cloudy Mountains

Cloudy Mountains

雲山圖

Mi Youren 米友仁

Location

Download and Share

Did you know?

Description

Inscription

Inscription Translation

Inscription

Inscription Translation

Inscription

Inscription Translation

Inscription

Inscription Translation

Inscription

Inscription Translation

Inscription

Inscription Translation

Inscription

Inscription Translation

Inscription

Inscription Translation

Inscription

Inscription Translation

Inscription

Inscription

Inscription

Inscription

Contact us