The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of February 23, 2026
Listening to the Waterfall
1962
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Fu Baoshi researched the life and art of early Qing painter and calligrapher Shitao (1642–1707) and referred to him on the inscription here.Description
Themes like gazing at waterfalls and listening to the sound of nature traditionally evoke the literati ideal of man in harmony with nature. However, in post-1949 China, they seemed out of touch with contemporary life and were either painted for private contemplation or associated with the beauty of the new and modern China. Fu Baoshi painted this fan 1962 in Nanjing and dedicated the whole set, to which this leaf belongs, to his wife and eldest daughter, Yishan. The small painting offers an extraordinary breadth of vision and demonstrates the artist’s effortless and free use of the brush.- 1960s–?Fu Baoshi's family collection, Nanjing, China?–2008(Han Mo Xuan Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2008–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Chung, Anita, Julia Frances Andrews, Kuiyi Shen, Tamaki Maeda, and Aida Yuen Wong. Chinese art in an age of revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965). Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 61, pp. 184-196
- Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017).Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904–1965). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 16, 2011-January 8, 2012); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (co-organizer) (January 30-April 29, 2012).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.13.4