Artist's inscription, signature, and 1 seal: I love the Daoist of Plum Blossom./ His brush is full of imagination./ Amid his dark cun and deep washes,/ Appears a scene close to wilderness. Yuncong [seal] Xiao Yuncong

Inscription

9 additional seals: 2 of Chen Yixi 陳奕禧 (1646-1709); 4 of Li Yufen 李玉棻 [Li Yunhu 李韵湖] (active mid-1800s); 3 unidentified.

Provenance

Chen Yixi 陳奕禧 [1648–1709]

Li Yufen 李玉棻 [mid-1800s]

Wu Hufan 吳湖帆 [1894–1968]

Qin Tongli 秦通理 [early 1900s]

?-1955

(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1955-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. “An Album of Landscapes by Hsiao Yün-Ts'ung.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 44, no. 6, 1957, pp. 121–125. Mentioned: pp. 121-125; Reproduced: p. 122 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned: cat. no. 874 archive.org

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. p. 119, no. 96

Rosenzweig, Daphne Lange. "A Landscape Handscroll by Hsiao Yün-ts'ung." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 32, no. 1 (1974-75): pp. 34-56. Reproduced: pp. 43, 44, 51, figs. 10-12

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. 38 (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: cat. no. 224, pp. 300-301

Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 351-359

Exhibition history

Conference on Oriental-Western Literary and Cultural Relations. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1974).

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).

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).