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Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

Horizontally long white paper with a central grey-black ink drawing of a mountainous landscape with spindly, leafless trees. A central, slightly darker rectangle marks a hazy photograph from which drawings extend the photographed mountains into the surrounding white paper. The mountains' rough, rocky shapes extend downwards, becoming shorter until they merge with the white paper. Among the white in the lower left corner stack two, square red ink stamps depicting Chinese characters (see "Inscriptions").

Angles #2

2020
painter

Arnold Chang

(American, b. 1954)
photographer

Michael Cherney

(American, b. 1969)
China
Photography and ink on xuan paper
Painting: 61 x 144 cm (24 x 56 11/16 in.); Overall: 64.5 x 147.7 cm (25 3/8 x 58 1/8 in.)
Edward L. Whittemore Fund 2022.46
© Arnold Chang
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Xuan paper is renowned for its fine, soft texture and its ability to absorb ink well without blurring, making it ideal for capturing the delicate brushstrokes and subtle ink washes central to Chinese art forms. The paper originated from the ancient Xuan region in China (now part of Jingxian, Anhui Province).

Description

Beijing-based Jewish American photographer Michael Cherney and American-born Chinese artist Arnold Chang created a work by uniting their disparate media. Cherney’s poetic photographs capture real landscapes in China. Here, by adding his brushwork, Chang completed an excerpt from his photographs that was printed on Chinese xuan paper to create a full composition. The resulting artwork defies categorization as painting or photograph, contemporary or traditional, Chinese or American, and expands age-old definitions of Chinese ink painting.
  • 2020–?
    Property of the artists
    ?–2022
    (Fu Qiumeng, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2022–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Landscapes by Arnold Chang: A Retrospective and Recent Acquisitions 張洪山水畫回顧展. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-November 9, 2025).
    Ink Affinities 墨缘: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney. Fu Qiumeng Fine Art, New York, NY (March 18–May 7, 2022).
  • {{cite web|title=Angles #2|url=false|author=Arnold Chang, Michael Cherney|year=2020|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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