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Streams and Mountains without End

溪山無盡

1100–1150

China, late Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) - Jin dynasty

(1115-1234)
Medium
handscroll; ink and slight color on silk
Measurements
Image: 35.1 x 213 cm (13 13/16 x 83 7/8 in.); Overall: 35.1 x 1103.8 cm (13 13/16 x 434 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.126
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The portrayal of the distant lands is rich with details like pavilions, villages, and human activities.

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Streams and Mountains without End was a landmark acquisition of 1953, made just a year after Sherman Lee had returned to Cleveland as curator of Oriental art. He acquired it with the intention to provide "a more than adequate foundation for a fine collection of Chinese landscape painting." This impressive work demonstrates the culmination of stylistic developments in Chinese monumental landscape painting following the Northern Song tradition. It represents a journey through a landscape, making it a fitting metaphor for Lee’s journey of discovery and achievement over a lifetime.
A handscroll in black ink shows a panorama of rocky mountains with water in the foreground and continuous streams running through them. Trees with short, speckled strokes for leaves and dotted greenery extend across the mountains. Fine lines detail bridges and buildings nestled among the mountains.

Streams and Mountains without End

1100–1150

China, late Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) - Jin dynasty (1115-1234)

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