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Cloud-Climbing Pavilion, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou

Cloud-Climbing Pavilion, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou

after 1490
(Chinese, 1427–1509)
China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Album leaf; ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper
Image: 31.6 x 40.5 cm (12 7/16 x 15 15/16 in.); Overall: 36.5 x 49.9 cm (14 3/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1964.371.12
Location: not on view

Description

Views of Tiger Hill depicts a historic site a few miles northwest of Suzhou. The scenes simulate a visit from arriving by boat at the foot of the mountain to climbing to Cloudy Cliff Monastery. Representations of the artist’s mature style, Shen Zhou included views in subtle colors in the suite of monochrome scenes.

A Suzhou native, Shen Zhou was supported by family wealth and rejected an official career in favor of life as a retired scholar. Turning to painting in midlife, he is regarded as the founder of the Wu School of painting, with its center in Suzhou.
  • Hu Zhishou 胡之壽 [late 18th–mid 19th century]
    Binliang 斌良 [1784–1847]
    Hou Shigong 侯士恭 [late 19th–early 20th century]
    ?-1964
    (Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1964-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. “Literati and Professionals: Four Ming Painters.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 53, no. 1, 1966, pp. 2–25. Reproduced: fig. 14 25152081
    Goepper, Roger. Kunst und Kunsthandwerk Ostasiens; ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber. München: Keyser, 1968. Reproduced: pl. 97
    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. 245-251
  • Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981).
    Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, cat. no. 155, p. 187-190.
    Asia House Gallery, 1974: Lee, Colors of Ink, cat. nos. 26 (B), 27 (E).
    Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954: Lee, Chinese Landscape Painting, cat. no. 51: 1-4 (B, E, F, J).
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