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Streams and Mountains without End
1100–1150
(960-1127) - Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
Image: 35.1 x 213 cm (13 13/16 x 83 7/8 in.); Overall: 35.1 x 1103.8 cm (13 13/16 x 434 9/16 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.126
Location: not on view
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The portrayal of the distant lands is rich with details like pavilions, villages, and human activities.Description
Streams and Mountains without End was a landmark acquisition of 1953, made just a year after Sherman Lee had returned to Cleveland as curator of Oriental art. He acquired it with the intention to provide "a more than adequate foundation for a fine collection of Chinese landscape painting." This impressive work demonstrates the culmination of stylistic developments in Chinese monumental landscape painting following the Northern Song tradition. It represents a journey through a landscape, making it a fitting metaphor for Lee’s journey of discovery and achievement over a lifetime.- Mid-1300sChen Ming 陳明 [active mid-1300s]1600sWang Changheng 王長恒 [active 1600s]1600sLiang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691]1700sZhang Bingqian 張秉乾 [juren of 1729]by 1736-1911?Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperors Qianlong, r. 1736–1795, Jiaqing, r. 1796–1820, and Xuantong, r. 1909–1911)early 1900s?Ye Gongchuo 葉恭綽 [1881–1968]early 1900s-before 1950Zhang Daqian 張大千 [1899–1983]?-1950(A dealer, Hong Kong, sold to Walter Hochstadter)1950-1953(Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1953-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHProvenance Footnotes1 Giuffrida (2018), p. 203, note 33. "Hochstadter acquired the painting from a dealer rather than directly fro Chang Dai-chien, whose seals were the most recent to be added to the painting. Surviving 1950 receipts from Hong Kong dealers J. D. Chen [Chen Rentao] 陳仁濤 (1906-68), Wah Tung Co., and Chuen Koo Chai list sales of ink-on-silk handscrolls reputedly from the Song period that could be Streams and Mountains (priced at $2,500, $4,000, and $6,000, respectively).
- Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. Mentioned: p. 145, cat. 14; Reproduced: p. 27 archive.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 853 archive.orgGoepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. Reproduced: cat. no.11The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 258 archive.orgEdwards, Richard. Li Ti. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1967. Mentioned: p. 18, footnote 14 archive.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 258 archive.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 341 archive.orgHo, 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. 21, pp. 35-37Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. The Nature and Significance of the Collection of Liang Ch'ing-Piao. Taipei, Taiwan: Chung-hua ming-kuo, 70 nien [1981]. p. 122, no. 60Harrist, Robert E. Jr. "'Watching Clouds Rise': A Tang Dynasty Couplet and Its Illustration in Song Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vol. 78, No. 7 (Nov., 1991). Reproduced: pp. 301-323, fig. 8 www.jstor.orgCunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 50–51Chou, 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. 34-43Chou, 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 and mentioned: p. 34Chou, 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. Mentioned: p. 41Chou, 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. 41Chou, 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. 42Chou, 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. 42Chou, 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. 42Chou, 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. 42Chou, 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. 42Chou, 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. 43Chou, 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. 43Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. The Nature and Significance of the Collection of Liang Ch'ing-Piao. Taipei, Taiwan: Chung-hua ming-kuo, 1960. 122McCormick, Sooa Im. "Cross-cultural Dialogues and Misattributions in Early Joseon Period Landscape Paintings." Arts of Asia 48, no. 3 (May-June 2018): 78-84. Reproduced: p. 80, fig. 4Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. Mentioned: pp. 88-91, 203Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. Reproduced: pp. 90-91, fig. 51; cover; Mentioned: pp. 88-97Provenance Footnotes1 Giuffrida (2018), p. 203, note 33. "Hochstadter acquired the painting from a dealer rather than directly fro Chang Dai-chien, whose seals were the most recent to be added to the painting. Surviving 1950 receipts from Hong Kong dealers J. D. Chen [Chen Rentao] 陳仁濤 (1906-68), Wah Tung Co., and Chuen Koo Chai list sales of ink-on-silk handscrolls reputedly from the Song period that could be Streams and Mountains (priced at $2,500, $4,000, and $6,000, respectively).
- Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2015-April 24, 2016).Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).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).Summer Mountains: the Timeless Landscape. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 9-October 3, 1976).Summer Mountains: The Timeless Landscape. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (1976).Chinese Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1960).1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).La Chinese des Song. Musée Cernushi, Paris, France (1956).Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1954). cat. no.16.Provenance Footnotes1 Giuffrida (2018), p. 203, note 33. "Hochstadter acquired the painting from a dealer rather than directly fro Chang Dai-chien, whose seals were the most recent to be added to the painting. Surviving 1950 receipts from Hong Kong dealers J. D. Chen [Chen Rentao] 陳仁濤 (1906-68), Wah Tung Co., and Chuen Koo Chai list sales of ink-on-silk handscrolls reputedly from the Song period that could be Streams and Mountains (priced at $2,500, $4,000, and $6,000, respectively).
- {{cite web|title=Streams and Mountains without End|url=false|author=|year=1100–1150|access-date=17 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}Provenance Footnotes1 Giuffrida (2018), p. 203, note 33. "Hochstadter acquired the painting from a dealer rather than directly fro Chang Dai-chien, whose seals were the most recent to be added to the painting. Surviving 1950 receipts from Hong Kong dealers J. D. Chen [Chen Rentao] 陳仁濤 (1906-68), Wah Tung Co., and Chuen Koo Chai list sales of ink-on-silk handscrolls reputedly from the Song period that could be Streams and Mountains (priced at $2,500, $4,000, and $6,000, respectively).
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