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Birds on a Tree above a Cataract

1127–1279

Li Di

(Chinese, c. 1100-c. 1192)
China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
Album leaf; ink and color on silk
Painting: 24.9 x 26 cm (9 13/16 x 10 1/4 in.); Overall: 37.6 x 59.4 cm (14 13/16 x 23 3/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1964.155
Location: Not on view
  • Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 [1525–1590]
    Wu Maohe 吳懋和 [1600s]
    at least by 1962
    C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY
    ?–1964
    A. [Albert] Dean Perry [1909–1987] and Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1964–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. Reproduced: cat. no.16
    Cahill, James. The Art of Southern Sung China. New York: Asia House, 1962. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 8, p. 31
    Goepper, Roger. The Essence of Chinese Painting. London: Lund Humphries, 1963. Mentioned: pp. 64-66; Reproduced: p. 115, pl. 19
    Edwards, Richard. Li Ti. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1967. Mentioned: pp. 18-20; Reproduced: plate 10 archive.org
    Goepper, Roger. Kunst und Kunsthandwerk Ostasiens; ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber. München: Keyser, 1968. p1. 92
    Wang, Chi-chʻien. Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties: [Exhibition], March 26 Through May 30, 1970. New York: The [China House] Gallery, 1970. Reproduced: cat. no. 12
    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. 34, pp. 52-53
    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. 307, fig. 16
    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. Reproduced: pp. 56-58
  • Nature in Chinese Art: The Birds in Song Dynasty Paintings of the 10-13th Centuries. Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou, China (organizer) (November 10, 2024-January 9, 2025).
    The Fragrance of Ink: Chinese and Japanese Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. A. Dean Perry. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 19-August 3, 1997).
    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).
    Wang Chi-ch'ien, Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. China House Gallery (organizer) (March 26-May 30, 1970).
    The art of Southern Sung China. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (1962).
    1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).
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