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Travelers in Autumn Mountains

1300–50

Sheng Mou 盛懋

(Chinese, active c. 1310–1350)

China, Yuan dynasty

(1271-1368)

Album leaf, ink and slight color on silk

Image: 24.4 x 26.5 cm (9 5/8 x 10 7/16 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1963.589

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

Most of the signature of the artist has been scraped away, so that only the character "Sheng" is legible.

Inscriptions

Inscription

盛 ?

Inscription Translation

Artist's signature upper right corner: Sheng ?

Inscription

10 collectors' seals: 8 of Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640-1686); 2 of Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 (late 1600s-early 1700s), son of Geng Zhaozhong.

Provenance

Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 [1640-1686], to his son Geng Jiazuo

Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 [late 1600s-early 1700s]

C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907-2003], New York, NY

(Walter Hochstadter [1914-2007], New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin)

?-1963

Severance A. [1895-1985] and Greta Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1963-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. cat. no. 31

Lee, Sherman E. and Wai-Kam Ho. "Scattered Pearls beyond the Ocean." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Feb., 1964), pp. 23-39. Reproduced: pp. 23-39, cat. no. 10 www.jstor.org

Sullivan, Michael. Chinese and Japanese Art. New York: Grolier, 1965. Reproduced: pp. 69-70, 182

Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. cat. no. 232

Wang, Chi-chʻien. Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. New York. China House Gallery. Catalogues. 1968-70. New York: China House Gallery, the China Institute in America, 1970. cat. no. 49

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. 13

Lee, Sherman E. “Early Ming Painting at the Imperial Court.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 62, no. 8, 1975, pp. 243–259. Reproduced: p. 245, fig. 1 www.jstor.org

Sullivan, Michael. Symbols of Eternity: The Art of Landscape Painting in China. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1979. Reproduced: p. 105, pl. 61

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. 108, p. 133

Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010. Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 24, p. 309

Exhibition history

Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968)

Wang Chi-ch'ien, Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. China House Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (March 26-May 30, 1970).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 27, 2003-March 10, 2004).

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

Fifteen Chinese Paintings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (October 9-28, 1964).

Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).

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).

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).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).