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Sleeping Bird on a Prunus Branch

1400s

Bian Wenjin

(Chinese, about 1354–1428)
China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
album leaf; ink on silk
Overall: 24.3 x 21 cm (9 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee 1967.249
Location: Not on view
  • ?–1967
    Dr. Sherman E. Lee [1918–2008] and Mrs. Ruth Ward Lee [1918–2011], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1967–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. 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. 25
    Lee, Sherman E. “Early Ming Painting at the Imperial Court.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 8 (October 1975): 243–259. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 255, fig. 16 www.jstor.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. cat. no. 122, p. 147.
  • 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).
    The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).
    Year in Review for 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).
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