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Mount Hua

華山

1506

Tang Yin 唐寅

(Chinese, 1470–1523)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper

Painting: 116.4 x 41.4 cm (45 13/16 x 16 5/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 213.5 x 66.7 cm (84 1/16 x 26 1/4 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1969.116

Location

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Description

In this work, Tang Yin accumulates towering mountain summits in the manner of the Sung master, Li Tang, to capture the monumental presence of his subject. Tang Yin’s angular brushstrokes and ink washes of varied intensity give texture to the rocky surface and accent the play of light. Mount Hua is situated in southern Shaanxi province in North China. Hardly accessible during Tang Yin’s time, the mountains were frequented by immortality seekers to dwell or collect herbal drugs there.

Tang Yin's potentially brilliant career was shattered in 1499 after he went to the capital to take the jinshi examination. He got entangled in a bribery case that caused him to spend seven years in prison. After his release, Tang returned to Suzhou, and settled on a career as a professional painter. One of Tang's few dated works, Mount Hua was painted seven years after this incident.

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Inscription

Artist's inscription, signature, and 4 seals: Wearing a white-bordered scholar's robe and green jade pendants, His life is unconcerned with worldly fame. Like P'an Lang resisting old age through high spirits, Crazy and clumsy he rides his donkey past Mount Hua. T'ang Yin painted this and composed the poem, the first month of the year of the Cheng-te era [1506]. [2 seals] T'ang Tzu-wei yin; T'ang. [2 seals, lower left corner] Po-hu T'ang Yin ssu yin; T'ang Chü-shih. trans. LYSL 12 additional seals: 2 of Wang Shan (1645-1728); 5 of Liu Shu (1759-1816); 1 of Yeh Ao (19th c.); 1 label and 2 seals of Lu Hui (1851-1920); 2 seals unidentified.

Provenance

by 1909-?

Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 [1864–1949]

Heizo Hayashi

Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988], to his son, Stephen O. K. Chen

?–1969

(Stephen O. K. Chen [20th century], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1969–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Pang, Yuanji 龐元濟. Xu zhai ming hua lu (16 juan) [虛齋名畫錄 (16卷) = Catalogue of paintings in the collection of the author]. Shanghai: Xuantong ji you, 1909. ch. 8, pp. 1(a), 1(b)

Ōmura, Seigai 大村西崖. Bunjin gasen 文人畫選. Tōkyō: Enseisha, 1922. Vol. II, 4

Naitō, Torajirō 內藤虎次郎. Min shitaika gafu 明四大家畫譜. Ōsaka: Hakubundō Gōshi Kaisha, 1924. p. 40

Tō Sō Gen Min meigaten-gō [唐宋元明名画展号]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Asahi Shinbun Hakkōjo, 1928. 265

Harada, Kinjirō 原田謹次郎. Shina meiga hōkan [支那名畫寶鑒 = The pageant of Chinese painting]. Tōkyō: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha, 1936. Reproduced: pl. 548

Sirén, Osvald. A History of Later Chinese Painting. London: The Medici Society, 1938. Mentioned and Reproduced: vol. I, 122, pl. 83, and vol. VII, Lists, 232

Harada, Kinjirō 原田謹次郎. Nihon genzai Shina meiga mokuroku 日本現在支那名畫目錄. Tōkyō: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha, 1938. p. 155

Sirén, Osvald. Kinas konst under tre årtusenden. Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 1942. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 528, 529, fig. 489

Ōmura, Seigai 大村西崖, and Ōmura Kidō 大村文夫. Chūgoku meigashū. 3 中国名画集. 第3冊. Tōkyō: Ryūbunshokyoku, 1945. Mentioned and Reproduced: III, pl. 18

Zheng, Zhenduo 鄭振鐸. Yu wai suo cang Zhongguo gu hua ji [8 zhong, 8 ji] 域外所藏中國古畫集 [8種, 8輯]. Shanghai: Shanghai chu ban gong si, 1947. Mentioned and Reproduced: ser. 6, pt. 2, pl. 1

Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. IV, 197; VI, pl. 220; VII, Lists, 237

Guo, Weiqu 郭味蕖. Song Yuan Ming Qing shu hua jia nian biao 宋元明清書畫家年表. Beijing: Zhongguo gu dian yi shu chu ban she, 1958. p. 143

Xu, Bangda 徐邦达. Li dai liu chuan shu hua zuo pin bian nian biao 歷代流傳書畫作品編年表. Shanghai: Shanghai ren min mei shu chu ban she, 1963. p. 286

Chiang Chao-shen 江兆申. "Liu-ju chu-shih chih shu-hua yu nien-p'u" [Liu-ju chu-shih's (T'ang Yin's) calligraphy, painting, and chronological biography]. National Palace Museum Quarterly [故宮季刊 = Gu gong ji kan] III, no. 3 (January 1969), pp. 35–79; English summary, 27–29. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 36, pl. 6-B

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. Reproduced: pp. 200-201, cat. no. 163

Exhibition history

To-So-Gen-Min, II. Tokyo Imperial Museum, Tokyo, Japan (November 24-December 16, 1928).

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).

Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 14, 2017-February 5, 2018).

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