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Conversation in a Thatched Hut

草堂消夏

late 1200s

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Album leaf; ink and color on silk

Overall: 26 x 27.3 cm (10 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1975.21

Location

240A Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy

Description

Two scholars in white robes sit conversing in a simple hut before bamboo grove. The foreground and right side are filled with two spindly trees and grove of banana trees among rugged rocks and precipices, all drawn in ink outline and filled in with opaque blue and green pigment.

Provenance

?–1975

(Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1975–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31–71. Mentioned: no. 170, p. 71; Reproduced: no. 170, p. 58 www.jstor.org

Kohara, Hironobu 古原宏伸. Kō Kōbō, Gei San, Ō Mō, Go Shin 黃公望, 倪瓚, 王蒙, 吳鎭. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 117, text fig. 9

Lee, Sherman E. "River Village: Fisherman's Joy." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vol. 66, No. 7 (Oct., 1979), pp. 271–288. Reproduced: pp. 271–288, fig. 14 www.jstor.org

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: p. 89, fig. 69

Exhibition history

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 1999-January 24, 2000).

Year in Review: 1975. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 3-March 7, 1976).

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).

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草堂消夏

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