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Clouds Visiting a Mountain Retreat

Clouds Visiting a Mountain Retreat

1633
(Chinese, active c. 1610–1640)
China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Hanging scroll; ink on silk
Painting: 176.4 x 101 cm (69 7/16 x 39 3/4 in.); Overall with knobs: 290 x 121.3 cm (114 3/16 x 47 3/4 in.)
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1971.19
Location: not on view

Description

Little is known about Tao Hong who settled in Nanking in the latter part of his life. His son was a friend of the
leading Nanjing school artist Gong Xian (on display nearby). When the Ming dynasty collapsed in 1644, Tao joined the loyalist resistance in Yunnan province. By 1645 the Manchu invaders had defeated the Yunnanese forces, prompting Tao to flee to Burma, where he died shortly thereafter. Only five of Tao Hong’s works are known to exist, of which this painting is the largest.
  • ?–1971
    (Hsien-chi Tseng 曾憲七 [1919–2000], Boston, MA and New Hampshire, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1971–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman. “To See Big within Small: Hsiao-Chung-Chien-Ta.” The Burlington Magazine 114, no. 830 (May 1972): 312+314-323. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 322, figs. 68, 69 www.jstor.org
    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. 37
    Vanderstappen, Harrie A. "Seventeenth Century." In Artists and Traditions: Uses of the Past in Chinese Culture, pp. 149–168. Christian F. Murck, editor. Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 155, fig. 4
    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. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 200, p. 256
    Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華: 特别展: クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 65, cat. no. 40
  • Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of art, Cleveland, OH (January 7-July 7, 2015).
    Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).
    Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
    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. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).
    Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).
  • {{cite web|title=Clouds Visiting a Mountain Retreat|url=false|author=Tao Hong|year=1633|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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