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Conversation in a Thatched Hut

Conversation in a Thatched Hut

late 1200s
(1127-1279)
album leaf; ink and color on silk
Overall: 26 x 27.3 cm (10 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1975.21
Location: 240A Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy

Description

Two scholars in white robes sit conversing in a simple hut before a bamboo grove. The foreground and right side are filled with two spindly trees and a grove of banana trees among rugged rocks and precipices, all drawn in ink outline and filled in with opaque blue and green pigment.

Landscapes painted in blue and green mineral pigments often allude to the past or to paradise. Here the color may suggest that surrounded by nature, the scholars could escape the hassles of the chaotic world.
  • ?–1975
    (Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1975–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31–71. Mentioned: no. 170, p. 71; Reproduced: no. 170, p. 58 www.jstor.org
    Kohara, Hironobu 古原宏伸. Kō Kōbō, Gei San, Ō Mō, Go Shin 黃公望, 倪瓚, 王蒙, 吳鎭. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 117, text fig. 9
    Lee, Sherman E. "River Village: Fisherman's Joy." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vol. 66, No. 7 (Oct., 1979), pp. 271–288. Reproduced: pp. 271–288, fig. 14 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. Reproduced: p. 89, fig. 69
  • Six Dynasties of Chinese Painting (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2023-May 5, 2024).
    Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 1999-January 24, 2000).
    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).
    Year in Review: 1975. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 3-March 7, 1976).
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