The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

Earth Landscape

c. 2004

Li Huayi

(Chinese, b. 1948)
China
Horizontal flat mount; ink and color on paper
Painting: 87.6 x 177.8 cm (34 1/2 x 70 in.)
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2006.115
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

One of Li Huayi's inspirations is the monumental landscape painting tradition of the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127).

Description

Li Huayi seeks to recapture the elegance and fine texture of ancient Chinese landscape paintings while creating new abstract compositions for the modern world. Li begins his compositions by laying out large areas of ink washes. Next, he applies details of rock masses, trees, waterfall, clouds, and mist. While borrowing abstract, geometric forms of Western modernism, his brushwork depicting rocks and trees remains traditional.
  • 2004–?
    Collection of the artist, San Francisco, CA
    ?–2006
    (Kaikodo America Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2006–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Chung, Anita, "New Chinese Landscapes", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 47 no. 05, May/June 2007 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 10 archive.org
    Chung, Anita. "Re-emergence: New Chinese Galleries and Art Acquisitions of The Cleveland Museum of Art." Orientations vol 44 no. 8 (November/December 2013): 64-75. Reproduced: pp. 72-3, fig. 9
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 111
  • Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 6-November 1, 2020).
    Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 28, 2014-January 7, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=Earth Landscape|url=false|author=Li Huayi|year=c. 2004|access-date=24 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2006.115