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Birds in a Grove in a Mountainous Winter Landscape

1100s

possibly by Gao Tao

(Chinese, 1100s)
China, Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk
Overall: 174.9 x 90.2 cm (68 7/8 x 35 1/2 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1966.115
Location: Not on view
  • late 1300s
    Zhu Gang 朱棡 [1358–1398]
    Suo’etu 索額圖 [1636–1703]
    A’erxipu 阿爾喜普 [1700s]
    Weng Fanggang 翁方綱 [1733–1818], Beijing, China
    ?–1966
    (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1966–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 259 archive.org
    Lee, Sherman E. “Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 7 (September 1966): 181–284. Mentioned: p. 284, no. 131; Reproduced: p. 269 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 259 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 342 archive.org
    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. 20, p. 35
    Treasures in the Spotlight: Art of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in Chinese, Japanese and American Collections [翰墨聚珍: 中國日本美國藏中國古代書畫藝術 = Han mo ju zhen: Zhongguo Riben Meiguo cang Zhongguo gu dai shu hua yi shu]. Shanghai: 上海書畫出版社, 2012. Reproduced: p. 28, fig. 10
    Shanghai bo wu guan. Han mo hui cui: xi du Meiguo cang Zhongguo Wu dai Song Yuan shu hua zhen pin [翰墨薈萃: 细读美国藏中国五代宋元书画珍品 = Masterpieces of early Chinese painting and calligraphy in American collections]. Beijing: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2012. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat no. 10, pp. 145–146
    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. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 68–69
  • Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections. Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China (organizer) (November 1, 2012-January 3, 2013).
    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).
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