Collection Online as of May 28, 2023
before 1330
(Chinese, active 1280s-1320s)
Album leaf, ink on silk
Painting only: 24.5 x 25.2 cm (9 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.536
Inscriptions
Inscription Artist's seal: Zhichuan 稚川 (partially obliterated but readable).
2 additional seals: 1 of Duan Fang 端方 (1861-1911); 1 unidentified.
Luo Zhichuan Luo Zhichuan was part of a local school of painting based in Xinyu 新喻, Linjiang 臨江 circuit, Jiangxi province in the late Southern Song and early Yuan periods.
Provenance Dr. J. C. [John Calvin] Ferguson [福開森, 1866–1945]
H. W. [Henry Watson] Kent [1866–1948] as agent for the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
?–1915
John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1915–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Lee, Sherman E. and Wai-Kam Ho. "Scattered Pearls beyond the Ocean."
The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art , Vol. 51, No. 2 (Feb., 1964), pp. 23-39. Reproduced: pp. 23-39, cat. no. 11
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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. cat. no. 215
Wang, Chi-chʻien. Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. New York. China House Gallery. Catalogues. 1968-70. New York: China House Gallery, the China Institute in America, 1970. cat. no. 55
Lee, Sherman. “To See Big within Small: Hsiao-Chung-Chien-Ta.”
The Burlington Magazine , vol. 114, no. 830, 1972, pp. 314–323. Reproduced: p. 317, figs. 51, 52
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Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art . New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. cat. no. 22
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. 101, pp. 124-126.
Williams, Marjorie. Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Bloomington, IN: Distributed by Indiana University Press, 1981. Reproduced: fig. 17, p. 31
Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Reproduced: p. 51, cat. no. 28
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. 109-113
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. p. 109
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. p. 109
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. p. 109
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. 80, fig. 41
Exhibition history
Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368 . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968)
Wang Chi-ch'ien, Album Leaves . China House Gallery, New York, NY (March 26-May 30,1970).
Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122) . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003).
The Colors of Ink . Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).
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).
Visions of Landscape: East and West . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art . Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).
