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Bamboo and Insects

竹蟲圖

late 1100s

Wu Bing 吳炳

(Chinese, active 1190–1194)

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Album leaf; ink on silk

Image: 24.8 x 26.8 cm (9 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.)

Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1964.154

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Inscription

Artist's signature at lower left: 吳炳 Wu Ping. 1 unidentified seal reading "Lo-hsi."

Provenance

(C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. A. Dean Perry)

?-1964

Mr. A. [Albert] Dean Perry [1910?-1987] and Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1964-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Wang, Chi-chʻien. Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties: [Exhibition], March 26 Through May 30, 1970. New York: The [China House] Gallery, 1970. cat. no. 33

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. 32, p. 51

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. 65-67

Tanenbaum, Mary. Fishing on the Terrace: A Collection of Writings, edited by Heather Parks. [Redwood City, CA]: Stanford University Press, 2018 Reproduced: p. 32

Exhibition history

Album leaves from the Sung and Yuan dynasties. China House Gallery, New York, NY (March 26-May 30, 1970).

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).

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