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Spring Landscape

春景圖

1666

Kuncan 髠殘

(Chinese, 1612-c. 1673)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Double album leaf mounted as a handscroll, ink and color on paper

Overall: 31.8 x 64.5 cm (12 1/2 x 25 3/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1966.367

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This spring scene was once accompanied by album leaves of summer (now in the Museum für Asiatiche Kunst, Berlin) and autumn and winter (now in the British Museum).

Description

One of the acclaimed "Four Monks" (the other three being Zhu Da, Daoji, and Hongren), Kuncan was known for the rough and rustic style of his landscape paintings. This painting was once part of a large album, painted at the request of his friend Cheng Zhengkui (active 1630–74), with whom he shared a common interest in painting and poetry. The inscription contains a poem, which reads: Wandering through mountains and oblivious of time, We met in casual shoes (and attires). The wind and dew drops harbor a chilling emptiness. Only with patience and silence can the Chan inspiration come. . . .

Artist biography

Kuncan

Kuncan was one of the so-called Four Monks of the early Qing period.

Inscriptions

Inscription

遊山忘歲月，屐舄自相過。風露寒虚意，禪機靜裡磨。同年叩梵宇，遂此老煙蘿。豈向人間說，林丘自在多。畫必師古，書亦如之。觀人亦然，况六法乎。石谿殘道人印二：石谿，白秃。另有「介丘」一印在右邊。

Inscription Translation

Artist's inscription, signature, and 3 seals: We wandered through the mountains and forgot the time./ Our paths crossed naturally./ The wind and dewdrops are cold and empty./ And the Chan intuition gains its edge in silence./ Our friends knock on the gates of my Buddhist retreat./ To visit the old mist-shrouded vines./ How can we convey to those worldly beings,/ That life is so much more at ease in woods and hills? In painting, one must follow the way of the ancients. Calligraphy too is like that. It is true even in character assessment, not to mention the Six Canons [of painting]. [2 seals] Shi xi; Bai tu. [seal, lower right edge] Jie qiu.

Provenance

Gao Yong 高邕 [1850–1921]

Xu Xiaopu 徐小圃 [1887–1961]

Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY,

?-1966

(N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1966-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Tang Jisheng 唐吉生, and Gao Yongzhi 高邕之. Taishan can shi lou cang hua [泰山殘石樓藏畫 = Painting collection of the Taishan can shi]. Shanghai: Xi leng yin she, 1926-29. Portfolio 3, vol. 4, unpaginated

Cahill, James, and Virginia Field. Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. New York: Asia Society; distributed by Abrams, 1967. cat. no. 20

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 268 archive.org

Zhang, Wanli and Hu Renmu. Badashanren shu hua ji [八大山人書畫集 = Selected paintings and calligraphy of Bada Sharen]. Li da ming hua jia zuo ping xuan ji [歷代名畫家作品選集 = Selected works of famous painters in Chinese history]. Kowloon, Hong Kong: Kai fa gu fen you xian gong si, 1969. Reproduced: pl. 25

Cahill, James. "中国絵画における奇想と幻想-中." Kokka 國華 (April 1975): pp. 5-21. fig. 18

Fu, Shen 傅申. Ming Qing zhi ji di ke bi gou le feng shang yu Shitao di zao qi zuo pin [明清之際的渴筆勾勒風尚與石濤的早期作品 = An aspect of mid-seventeenth century Chinese painting: The "dry linear" style and the early work of Tao-chi]. Hong Kong: Xianggang Zhong wen da xue [香港中文大學 = The Chinese University of Hong Kong], 1976. p. 595

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 356 archive.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. 233, pp. 315-316

Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: p. 360-365

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

Mentioned: p. 365

Exhibition history

Fantastics and Eccentrics. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY, (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); and M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967).

Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967).

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

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); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983).

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