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An album leaf with ink and light color depicts a landscape of craggy, pale mountains defined by textured ink outlines and hazy washes. Houses are nestled among clusters of trees on the right, while two small figures stand near a waterfall in the lower left. Chinese calligraphy and a red seal occupy the upper left corner, with another seal at the bottom right. Soft pink and green foliage dot the scene.

Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf E (previous leaf 3)

1668

Xiao Yuncong

(Chinese, 1596–1673)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
album leaf; ink and light color on paper
Overall: 21 x 15.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1955.302.3
Location: 240A Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy

Description

Throughout his lifetime, Xiao Yuncong visited Nanjing and Yangzhou, cities embedded in the fertile and water-rich Jiangnan region, as reflected in his paintings. Xiao painted from nature, and his landscapes are informed by the seasons and his travels, as well as by his experience as a print designer. Xiao’s fresh, light colors continue to appear in later Shanghai school paintings.

This album was formerly in the collection of Li Yufen in Yangzhou and then owned by Wu Hufan in Shanghai. While the artist impressed his seal consistently below his poetic inscriptions in the upper parts of the composition, the red seals on the margins and in the lower corners of the paintings are impressions by the album’s previous owners.
  • Chen Yixi 陳奕禧 [1648–1709]
    Li Yufen 李玉棻 [mid-1800s], Yangzhou, China
    Wu Hufan 吳湖帆 [1894–1968], Shanghai, China
    Qin Tongli 秦通理 [early 1900s]
    ?–1955
    (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1955–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned: cat. no. 874 archive.org
    Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. p. 119, no. 96
    Rosenzweig, Daphne Lange. "A Landscape Handscroll by Hsiao Yün-ts'ung." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 32, no. 1 (1974–75): pp. 34–56. Reproduced: pp. 43, 44, 51, figs. 10–12
    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. 38 (B)
    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. 224, pp. 300–301
    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. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 351–359
    "Permanent Collection Installations.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 66, no. 1 (2026): 14–15. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 14 archive.org
  • The Plum Scenery Studio: Wu Hufan and His Circle in Modern Shanghai. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 31-November 8, 2026).
    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).
    The Colors of Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).
    Conference on Oriental-Western Literary and Cultural Relations. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1974).
  • {{cite web|title=Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf E (previous leaf 3)|url=false|author=Xiao Yuncong|year=1668|access-date=14 July 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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