id: 113945 accession number: 1933.220 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.220 updated: 2025-06-18 11:14:26.421000 Cloudy Mountains, 1130. Mi Youren (Chinese, 1072–1151). Handscroll; ink and color on silk; image: 43.7 x 192.6 cm (17 3/16 x 75 13/16 in.); overall: 45.5 x 646.8 cm (17 15/16 x 254 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1933.220 title: Cloudy Mountains title in original language: 雲山圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1130 creation date earliest: 1130 creation date latest: 1130 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) technique: Handscroll; ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Mi Youren (Chinese, 1072–1151) - artist --- measurements: Image: 43.7 x 192.6 cm (17 3/16 x 75 13/16 in.); Overall: 45.5 x 646.8 cm (17 15/16 x 254 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 好山無數接天涯，烟靄陰晴日夕佳。/ 要識先生會到此，故留筆戲在君家。/ 庚戍歲，辟地新昌作。元暉。/ [seal] 元暉戲作 translation: remark: inscription: [Seal] 安陽孫氏 translation: remark: inscription: [Seal] 畢瀧 translation: remark: inscription: [Seal] 成親王 translation: remark: inscription: [Seal] 永瑆 translation: remark: inscription: [Seal] 錫三 appears twice translation: remark: inscription: [Seal] 養性齋珍藏書畫印 translation: remark: inscription: [Seal] 芷陔審定真跡 translation: remark: inscription: [Seal] 玉簡齋 translation: remark: inscription: 2 colophons (1 dated 1650), inscription dated 1647, and 2 seals of Wang To (1592–1652) translation: remark: inscription: 1 colophon, dated second month of the gengyin year 庚寅 (1650), and 2 seals of Chen Kuang 陳爌 (1646 jinshi degree) translation: remark: inscription: 7 seals unidentified translation: remark: inscription: A separate scroll containing six colophons on Cloudy Mountains exists; the inscribers are Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 (1866–1940), Naito Torajiro 內藤虎次郎 (1866–1934), Nagao Ko 長尾甲 (1864–1942), and Wu Changshuo 吳昌碩 (1844–1927). Naito Torajiro alone wrote three colophons. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Exhibition of the Month: The Romantic Spirit opening date: 1952-03-29T05:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: The Romantic Spirit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 29-May 5, 1952). title: Chinese Landscape Painting opening date: 1954-11-05T04:00:00 Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954). title: Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques opening date: 1981-02-07T05:00:00 Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-April 5, 1981). title: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting opening date: 1981-02-11T05:00:00 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). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). title: The Chinese Painter as Poet opening date: 2000-09-14T00:00:00 The Chinese Painter as Poet. China Institute Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 14-December 17, 2000). title: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00 Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). title: Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2017-08-14T04:00:00 Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 14, 2017-February 5, 2018). title: China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00 China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'To-So-Gen-Min, II. Tokyo Imperial Museum, Tokyo, Japan (November 24-December 16, 1928).', 'opening_date': '1928-11-24T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'The International Exhibition of Chinese Art. Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England (November 28, 1935-March 7, 1936).', 'opening_date': '1935-11-28T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Pacific Cultures, China. Golden Gate International Exhibition, San Francisco, CA (1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-01-01T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4-July 22, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-03-04T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Zigu 子榖 [mid-1600s] date: footnotes: citations: Xisan 錫三 of Yang xing zhai 養性齋 [likely 1800s] date: footnotes: citations: Li Zaixian 李在銛 [early 1900s] date: footnotes: citations: Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 [1866–1940] date: footnotes: citations: Yamamoto Teijiro 山本悌二郞 [1870–1937], Tokyo, Japan date: footnotes: citations: (Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1933 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1933– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Tō Sō Gen Min meigaten-gō [唐宋元明名画展号]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Asahi Shinbun Hakkōjo, 1928. page number: p. 56 url: "Part II. Eighteenth Annual Report of the Cleveland Museum of Art 1933." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 21, no. 2 (1934): 1-15. page number: Mentioned: p. 4 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137607 The Chinese Exhibition; A Commemorative Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, November 1935-March 1936. London: Faber and Faber, 1936. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 1140, p. 48; Reproduced: cat. no. 1140a-c, p. 110 url: Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition: June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1936. page number: cat. no. 382 url: Pacific Cultures, Department of Fine Arts, Division of Pacific Cultures. San Francisco, CA: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 126 url: Francis, Henry. "Loans to Important Exhibitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 7 (July 1939): 123. page number: Mentioned: p. 123 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138029 Lee, Sherman. "Chinese Landscape Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 9 (November 1954): 199-201. page number: Mentioned: p. 200 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141989 Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 15; Reproduced: p.32, 33 url: https://archive.org/details/ChineseLandscape The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 854 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n151 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 258 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n282 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 258 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n282 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 341 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n361 Lee, Sherman E. "River Village: Fisherman's Joy." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vol. 66, No. 7 (Oct., 1979). page number: Reproduced: p. 271-288, fig. 11 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159640 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. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 24, pp. 42-44 url: Harrist, Robert E. "Watching Clouds Rise: A Tang Dynasty Couplet and Its Illustration in Song Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 7 (1991): 301-23. page number: Mentioned: p.323, p. 313 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161335 Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 38-39, cat. no. 18 url: Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. page number: Reproduced: fig. 3, pp. 98-100 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 50-55 url: Burnett, Katharine P. "A New Look at a New Look: Painting and Theory of Seventeenth-Century China." Little, Stephen. In 17th-century Chinese paintings from the Tsao family collection. Stephen Little, ed., 130-167. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich, Germany; DelMonico Books, 2016. page number: Reproduced: pp. 158-159 url: Von Spee, Clarissa. "Lichtenstein's China: Consider the inspiration of a 900-year-old scroll on a Pop Art master." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 57, no. 4 (July/August 2017): 14–15. page number: Reproduced: pp. 14–15; Mentioned: p. 14. url: Moser, Jeffrey. "Mist as Method." Manual Issue 9 (Fall 2017): 16-29. page number: Reproduced: p. 26, fig. 6 url: Hai, Willow Weilan. "Mountains of China: Legends and Civilization." Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer's Lens. Willow Weilan Hai, ed., 11-41. New York: China Institute, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 31 url: Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 82, fig. 42 url: Chaves, Jonathan. The Chinese painter as poet. New York, NY: China Institute Gallery, China Institute, 2000. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 2, pp. 34-35, p. 132 url: Park, J. P. "Pastmodern: The Traditions of the Avant-Garde in Early Asian Art." Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 87 (February 14, 2023): 43–57. page number: Reproduced: p. 46 (fig. 4 and 4a); Mentioned: p. 45 url: Liu, Yiwen 刘漪文. “人间天堂的别处想象：在克利夫兰艺术博物馆遥望中国江南” [Imagining Paradise Elsewhere: Gazing at China's Jiangnan from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. The Art Newspaper 艺术新闻中文版, November 2, 2023. page number: Reproduced url: http://www.tanchinese.com/archives/exhibitions/124384 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1933.220/1933.220_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1933.220/1933.220_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1933.220/1933.220_full.tif