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May 12, 2010

Shade of Pines in a Cloudy Valley

雲壑松陰

1660

Wang Jian 王鑑

(Chinese, 1598–1677)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

Overall: 128.2 x 61 cm (50 1/2 x 24 in.)

Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.105

Location

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Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's inscription, signature, and seal: Painted at Yiyage in imitation of Wang Meng's Shade of Pines in a Cloudy Valley during the Qingming Festival of the gengzi year [1660]. Wang Jian [seal] Wang Jian zhi yin.

Inscription

2 additional seals: 1 of Bi Long 畢瀧 (18th c.); 1 unidentified.

Provenance

Bi Long 畢瀧 [18th century]

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

before 1980–1997

Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1997–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. cat. no. 83

Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. Mentioned: vol. VII, Lists, 421

Goepper, Roger. Im Schatten des Wu-Tʻung-Baumes [桐陰畫訣= Tong yin hua jue]. München: Hirmer, 1959. Reproduced: pl. 23

Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. cat. no. 90

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. p. 97, no. 78

Goepper, Roger. The Essence of Chinese Painting. London: Lund Humphries, 1963. Mentioned: pp. 74, 219; Reproduced: pls. 78, 79

Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸, Tamaki Ogawa 小川環樹, and Roderick Whitfield. Un Juhei, Ō Ki 惲壽平王翬. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 167, pl. 90

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. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 241, pp. 326-327

Suzuki, Kei. Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings. [Tokyo]: University of Tokyo Press, 1982. Mentioned and Reproduced: #A23-009, p. I-287

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: p. 313, no. 36

Exhibition history

Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

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

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