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Collection Online as of June 9, 2023

Willows

1100s

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Album leaf; ink and light color on silk

Image: 23.8 x 25.1 cm (9 3/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.365

Location

not on view

Provenance
Walter Hochstadter [1914-2007], New York, NY
(N. V. Hammer, New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)
?-1985
The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1985-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
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. 43, p. 58
Exhibition history

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).

A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

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