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Thin Forest and Distant Mountains

1628

Li Liufang 李流芳

(Chinese, 1575–1629)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Hanging scroll, ink on paper

Overall: 114.3 x 40.3 cm (45 x 15 7/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1953.630

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: Thin forest and distant mountains have always attracted me; As if they were from the brush and ink of Ni Tsan, left behind by the master in this mortal world. Now that the quiet recluse has chosen to live in the South of the City. He paints the spring breeze---over a curve of the river. In the spring day of the wu-ch'en year [1628] I made this painting and attached an old poem. Li Liu-fang [seals] Li Liu-fang-yin; Chang-heng shih. trans. WKH 1 additional seal of Chung Wen-ming (17th c.).

Provenance

Shinozaki Collection

?-1953

(Howard C. Hollis, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1953-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Tō Sō Gen Min meigaten-gō [唐宋元明名画展号]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Asahi Shinbun Hakkōjo, 1928. 360

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. Mentioned: p. 152, cat. no. 71; Reproduced p. 96 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 860 archive.org

Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. Reproduced: cat. no. 71

Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. cat. no. 33.

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. 193, pp. 247-248

Exhibition history

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

Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1954).

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).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).

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

The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).