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Looking for a Monastery in the Misty Mountains

霧山尋隱

1500–1544

Chen Chun 陳淳

(Chinese, 1483–1544)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Hanging scroll, ink on paper

Overall: 158 x 63.5 cm (62 3/16 x 25 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1979.28

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Inscription

Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: Row after row of misty trees envelop the Buddhist Monastery./ But the rustic who comes to find it will not lose his way./ Just across the wooden bridge, the dusty world is cut off;/ Among the countless falling petals, birds are singing confusedly. Daofu 道複 composed [this]. [seals] Fufu shi 復甫; Baiyang shanren 白陽山人. trans. WKH/LYSL

Inscription

3 additional unidentified seals.

Inscription

1 additional unidentified seal on the back of the mounting.

Provenance

?-1979

(James J. Freeman, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1979-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. Reproduced: cat. no. 113. p. 84 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: cat. no. 179, p. 227

Greene, David B. How to Respond to Strangeness in Art: Four Studies in the Unfamiliar. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Reproduced: fig. 3.11

Exhibition history

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: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).

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

Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987).

Chinese Buddhist Art Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2021-May 8, 2022).

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