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Cottages in a Misty Grove in Autumn

煙村秋霭圖

1117

Li Anzhong 李安忠

(Chinese, active first half of the 1100s)

China, Northern Song dynasty

(960-1127)

Album leaf; ink and color on silk

Overall: 24.2 x 26.3 cm (9 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1963.588

Location

003 Special Exhibition Hall

Description

This leaf is an early example of a new mode in landscape painting expressed in vistas of water-rich scenery that developed since the 900s. Li Anzhong, a court artist during the 1100s, witnessed the transition of the capital from Kaifeng across the Yangzi River to Hangzhou.

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Inscription

Artist's inscription: In the ting-yu year [1117], Li An-chung painted. 2 seals of Wu T'ing (ca. 1600).

Provenance

Gao Shiqi 高士奇 [1645–1703], Hangzhou, China

C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY

Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY

?–1963

Severance A. [1895–1985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903–1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1963–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. Mentioned: II, 74, and Lists, 58; Reproduced: III, pl. 228

Qin, Zuyong, and Roger Goepper. Im Schatten Des Wu-T'ung-Baumes: [Gedanken Zur Malerei Von Ch'in Tsu-Yung]. Munchen: Hirmer, 1959. Reproduced: pl. 3

Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. Mentioned: cat. no. 13

Goepper, Roger. Chinesische Malerei; die ältere Tradition. Bern: Hallway, 1960 Mentioned: p. 18; Reproduced: p. 19

Loehr, Max. “Chinese Paintings with Sung Dated Inscriptions.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 4, 1961, pp. 219–284. Mentioned: p. 243 www.jstor.org

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. Reproduced: color pl. 1

"Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1963." Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 18 (1964): pp. 69-91. Reproduced: p. 71, fig. 9 www.jstor.org

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. 1 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 259 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 259 archive.org

Maeda, Robert J. “The Chao Ta-Nien Tradition.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 8, 1970, pp. 243–253. Reproduced: p. 248, fig. 1 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. 4

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 341 archive.org

Loehr, Max. The Great Painters of China. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. Reproduced: p. 158, fig. 77

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. 19, pp. 33-34

Cahill, James. The Lyric Journey: Poetic Painting in China and Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Reproduced: p. 21, no. 1.12

Adams, Laurie. The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2010. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 25

Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 306, fig. 14

Clapp, Anne de Coursey. Commemorative landscape painting in China. Princeton, NJ: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, 2012. Reproduced: p. 31, fig 11

Exhibition history

1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).

Fifteen Chinese Paintings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (October 9-28, 1964).

Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).

Wang Chi-ch'ien, Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. China House Gallery (organizer) (March 26-May 30, 1970).

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

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

China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).

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