id: 129859 accession number: 1952.283 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.283 updated: 2023-03-22 14:08:00.018000 The Haven of the Peach-Blossom Spring, mid-1400s. Attributed to Shi Rui (Chinese, c. 1400-c. 1470). Album leaf, ink and slight color on silk; image: 24.7 x 22.2 cm (9 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.); overall: 66.7 x 40.4 cm (26 1/4 x 15 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1952.283 title: The Haven of the Peach-Blossom Spring title in original language: 武陵桃源圖 series: series in original language: creation date: mid-1400s creation date earliest: 1445 creation date latest: 1470 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: album leaf, ink and slight color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Shi Rui (Chinese, c. 1400-c. 1470) - artist --- measurements: Image: 24.7 x 22.2 cm (9 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.); Overall: 66.7 x 40.4 cm (26 1/4 x 15 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Ways of Painting Landscapes opening date: 1953-03-13T05:00:00 Ways of Painting Landscapes. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 13-May 6, 1953). 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); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954). --- PROVENANCE (Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch [1874-1959], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Some fifty inhabitants of the Peach Blossom Spring gather in a small clearing surrounded by thatched huts and cottages. digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. page number: cat. no. 45 url: Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: Mentioned: VII, Lists, 178 url: Lee, Sherman E. “Some Problems in Ming and Ch'ing Landscape Painting.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 2, 1957, pp. 471–485. page number: Reproduced: pls. 1, 2 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4629051 Lee, Sherman E. “‘The Haven of T'ao Yüan-Ming.’” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 45, no. 9, 1958, pp. 211–214. page number: Mentioned: pp. 211-214; Reproduced: p. 213 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142296 Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. page number: Reproduced: p. 62, no. 47 url: 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. page number: Reproduced: pp. 37-38, cat. no. 12 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151985 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. 137, p. 161 url: Williams, Marjorie. Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Reproduced: fig. 35, p. 52 url: Walker, Nathaniel Robert. “Reforming the Way: The Palace and the Village in Daoist Paradise.” Utopian Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2013, pp. 6–22. page number: Reproduced: fig. 7, p. 19 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/utopianstudies.24.1.0006 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. 222-228, and fig. 1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.283/1952.283_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.283/1952.283_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.283/1952.283_full.tif