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Bamboo, Rock, and Tall Tree

筠石喬柯

c. 1300s

Ni Zan 倪瓚

(Chinese, 1301–1374)

China, Yuan dynasty

(1271-1368)

Hanging scroll, ink on paper

Image: 67.3 x 36.8 cm (26 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.); Overall with knobs: 231.4 x 64.2 cm (91 1/8 x 25 1/4 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1978.65

Location

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Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's inscription, signature, and seal: Windy and rainy days - what a chilly wheat-harvesting season,/ With brush in hand, I fight depression by copying./ Fortunately, I can depend upon you, my friend, to send me consolation -/ "Pine-lard" wind, and meat with bamboo shoots that never fail to awaken appetite./ Yunlinzi, Zan. [seal] Ziyiyue.

Inscription

4 additional inscriptions and 14 additional seals: 1 poem and 3 seals, possibly of Chang Yü (1277-1350); 1 poem and 1 seal of Yüan Hua (1316-end of 14th c,); 1 poem and 2 seals of Lu P'ing (1438-1521); 1 seal of Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 (1620-1691); 1 poem and 1 seal of Chao Yü (1638-1713); 1 seal of ? Jen-lan (dates unknown); 2 seals of Gu Wenbin 顧文彬 (1811-1889); 1 seal of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907–2003); 2 seals unidentified.

Inscription

Poem possibly by Chang Yü: The Daoist of the Cloudy Forest, Ni Yuanzhen,/ How many people can enjoy a fame in old age like yours?/ Seeing the painting, I wrote the poem in fond memories./ I feel as if I am bathed in the light of the fading moon/ Which shines on your spirit as always.

Provenance

second half of the 1600s

Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691]

Gu Wenbin 顧文彬 [1811-1889]

?-1978

(C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1978-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Zhang, Chou 張丑. Qing he shu hua fang: 12 juan [清河書畫舫: 12卷 = The Qinghe boat-studio of painting and calligraphy: catalogue of works known to the author]. [China]: [publisher not identified], 1875. Preface dated 1616. Vol. I, 6a

Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. VII, Lists, 128

Goepper, Roger. Im Schatten des Wu-Tʻung-Baumes [桐陰畫訣 = Tong yin hua jue]. München: Hirmer, 1959. Reproduced: pl. 8 & 9

Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. Reproduced: cat. no. 29

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. p. 50, no. 34

Goepper, Roger. The Essence of Chinese Painting. London: Lund Humphries, 1963. Mentioned and Reproduced: pls. 48-50

Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. Reproduced: cat. no. 254

Barnhart, Richard M. Wintry Forests, Old Trees: Some Landscape Themes in Chinese Painting. New York, NY: China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1972. cat. no. 11

Ishikawa, Jun 石川淳, Yoshitaka Iriya 入矢義高, Yūjirō Nakata 中田勇次郎, and Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸. Kō Kōbō, Gei San, Ō Mō, Go Chin [黄公望, 倪瓚, 王蒙, 呉鎮]. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 154, 165, pl. 24

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. 110, pp. 135-136

Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. The Nature and Significance of the Collection of Liang Ch'ing-Piao. Taipei, Taiwan: Chung-hua ming-kuo, 1981. Mentioned: pp. 137-138, no. 189

Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. The Nature and Significance of the Collection of Liang Ch'ing-Piao. Taipei, Taiwan: Chung-hua ming-kuo, 1981. Reproduced: pp. 137-138, no. 189

Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 309, no. 25

Shanghai bo wu guan. Han mo hui cui: xi du Meiguo cang Zhongguo Wu dai Song Yuan shu hua zhen pin [翰墨薈萃: 细读美国藏中国五代宋元书画珍品 = Masterpieces of early Chinese painting and calligraphy in American collections]. Beijing: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2012. Reproduced: cat no. 10, pp. 145-146

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. 133, fig. 77; Mentioned: pp. 133, 212

Exhibition history

Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968)

Wintry forests, old trees: some landscape themes in Chinese painting. China House Gallery, New York, NY (October 26, 1972-January 28, 1973).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 16-October 28, 2003).

1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).

Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).

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).

Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994).

The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 3, 1999-January 9, 2000).

Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections. Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China (organizer) (November 1, 2012-January 3, 2013).

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