Collection Online as of January 26, 2021

Landscape with Flying Geese

mid-1200s

Ma Lin 馬麟

(Chinese, c. 1185-after 1260)

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Album leaf, ink and slight color on silk

Image: 25.5 x 26.5 cm (10 1/16 x 10 7/16 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1952.285

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's signature: Your subject, Ma Lin.

Inscription

3 half-seals: 1 official seal of Yuan Dynasty; 1 of Ming imperial collection (used 1372-84); 1 official seal of Ming Dynasty.

Ma Lin

active mid 1200s

Provenance

?-1952

(Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch [1874-1959], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1952-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. and Wai-Kam Ho. "Scattered Pearls beyond the Ocean." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Feb., 1964), pp. 23-39. Reproduced: pp. 23-39, cat. no. 7 www.jstor.org

Wang, Chi-chʻien. Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties: [Exhibition], March 26 Through May 30, 1970. New York: The [China House] Gallery, 1970. cat. no. 34

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. 56, p. 71

Tanenbaum, Mary. Fishing on the Terrace: A Collection of Writings, edited by Heather Parks. [Redwood City, CA]: Stanford University Press, 2018. Reproduced: p. 108

Exhibition history

Oriental Art. Berea College, Berea, OH (1962).

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).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).