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Boating in a Spring River

春江泛舟

1963

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Fu Baoshi 傅抱石

(Chinese, 1904–1965)

China

Fan painting mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on paper

Overall: 13.5 x 42.5 cm (5 5/16 x 16 3/4 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2008.13.5

Location

not on view

Description

This fan painting shows a charming scene of figures boating in a river framed by overhanging branches flowering in pink. The inscription states: “Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. This is painted to welcome my daughter Yishan home for a reunion. Inscribed by Baoshi in the early evening of 25 June 1963.” It is noteworthy that Fu Baoshi chose a joyful spring scene to express his delight about his daughter having returned home.

Inscriptions

Inscription

The artist’s inscription: Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. This is painted to welcome by daughter Yishan home for a reunion. Inscribed by Baoshi in the early evening of 25 June 1962.

Provenance

1963-?

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

Citations

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 and p. 25, fig. 17

Exhibition history

The Art of 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).

Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017).