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The Football Players

The Football Players

c. late 1100s–1st quarter 1200s

attributed to Ma Yuan

(Chinese, c. 1150-after 1255)
Image: 115.6 x 55.3 cm (45 1/2 x 21 3/4 in.); Overall: 214.8 x 78 cm (84 9/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
Location: not on view
  • ?–1971
    Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur A. Cowett, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1971–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • The Art Quarterly, Vol. XXIV, No. 4 (Winter, 1971), repr. p. 494. Reproduced p. 494
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 343 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. cat. no. 55, p. 71
    Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku [中國繪畫總合圖錄 = Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings], 第 1卷. アメリカ·カナダ篇 [= vol. 1 American and Canadian collections]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 1982. Reproduced: fig. A22-017
    Finkel, Irving L., and Colin Mackenzie. Asian Games: The Art of Contest. New York, NY: Asia Society, 2004. Reproduced: cat. no. 23:1, p. 304
    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.. Mentioned: pp. 72-75; Reproduced: p. 74, fig. 2
  • Asian Games: The Art of Contest. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 14, 2004-February 5, 2005); National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (February 26-May 15, 2005).
    Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 16-October 28, 2003).
    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).
  • {{cite web|title=The Football Players|url=false|author=Ma Yuan|year=c. late 1100s–1st quarter 1200s|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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