id: 113945
accession number: 1933.220
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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
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creation date: 1130
creation date earliest: 1130
creation date latest: 1130
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
technique: Handscroll; ink and color on silk
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Handscroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Mi Youren (Chinese, 1072–1151) - artist
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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.)
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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
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inscription: [Seal] 安陽孫氏
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inscription: [Seal] 畢瀧
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inscription: [Seal] 成親王
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inscription: [Seal] 永瑆
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inscription: [Seal] 錫三 appears twice
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inscription: [Seal] 養性齋珍藏書畫印
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inscription: [Seal] 芷陔審定真跡
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inscription: [Seal] 玉簡齋
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inscription: 2 colophons (1 dated 1650), inscription dated 1647, and 2 seals of Wang To (1592–1652)
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inscription: 1 colophon, dated second month of the gengyin year 庚寅 (1650), and 2 seals of Chen Kuang 陳爌 (1646 jinshi degree)
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inscription: 7 seals unidentified
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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.
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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).
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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'}
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PROVENANCE
Zigu 子榖 [mid-1600s]
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Xisan 錫三 of Yang xing zhai 養性齋 [likely 1800s]
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Li Zaixian 李在銛 [early 1900s]
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Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 [1866–1940]
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Yamamoto Teijiro 山本悌二郞 [1870–1937], Tokyo, Japan
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(Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1933
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1933–
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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"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
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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
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Pacific Cultures, Department of Fine Arts, Division of Pacific Cultures. San Francisco, CA: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 126
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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
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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
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page number: Reproduced: pp. 38-39, cat. no. 18
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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
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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
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page number: Reproduced: pp. 158-159
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Moser, Jeffrey. "Mist as Method." Manual Issue 9 (Fall 2017): 16-29.
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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.
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Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.
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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.
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url: http://www.tanchinese.com/archives/exhibitions/124384
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