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Tao Yuanming's Return Home

歸去來辭圖

1300s

China, Yuan dynasty

(1271-1368)

Handscroll, ink and slight color on silk

Image: 34.6 x 566.4 cm (13 5/8 x 223 in.); Overall: 37.7 x 1001.1 cm (14 13/16 x 394 1/8 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1982.152

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Poet Tao Yuanming 陶淵明 (AD 365?–427) returned to a secluded life instead of pursuing a civil service career.

Provenance
?-1982
(Frank Caro [1904-1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1982-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ju-hsi Chou, and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2015. 
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Harrist, Robert E. "Watching Clouds Rise: A Tang Dynasty Couplet and Its Illustration in Song Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 7 (1991): 301-23. Mentioned: p. 322, p. 311 www.jstor.org
Wilson, J. Keith. "The Fine Art of Drinking: The Chinese Silversmith Zhu Bishan and His Sculptural Cups." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 10 (1994): 380-401. Reproduced: p. 395; Mentioned: p. 395, 401 www.jstor.org
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. Reproduced: p. 52, cat. no. 29
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. Reproduced: pp. 168-173
Exhibition history

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 2003-March 11, 2004)

The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).

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).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1982.152