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Conversation in a Thatched Hut

草堂消夏

late 1200s
(1127-1279)
album leaf; ink and color on silk
Overall: 26 x 27.3 cm (10 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1975.21
Location: 240A Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy
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Description

Two scholars in white robes sit conversing in a simple hut before a bamboo grove. The foreground and right side are filled with two spindly trees and a grove of banana trees among rugged rocks and precipices, all drawn in ink outline and filled in with opaque blue and green pigment.

Landscapes painted in blue and green mineral pigments often allude to the past or to paradise. Here the color may suggest that surrounded by nature, the scholars could escape the hassles of the chaotic world.
Conversation in a Thatched Hut

Conversation in a Thatched Hut

late 1200s

China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)

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