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accession number: 1953.247
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Fish and Rocks, mid- to late 1600s. Bada Shanren (Chinese, 1626–1705). Handscroll; ink on paper; overall: 29.2 x 157.4 cm (11 1/2 x 61 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1953.247
title: Fish and Rocks
title in original language: 魚石圖
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creation date: mid- to late 1600s
creation date earliest: 1650
creation date latest: 1699
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique: Handscroll; ink on paper
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Handscroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Bada Shanren (Chinese, 1626–1705) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 29.2 x 157.4 cm (11 1/2 x 61 15/16 in.)
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inscriptions:
inscription: 去天纔尺五，只見白雲行。
云何畫黃花，雲中是金城。
[印] 个山
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remark:
inscription: 雙井舊中河，明月時延佇。
黃家雙鯉魚，為龍在何處。
[印] 个山
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inscription: 三萬六千頃，畢竟有魚行。
到此一黃頰，海潮次上笙。
[印] 个山
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inscription: 5 additional seals: 2 of Zhang Daqian 張大千 (1899–1983); 1 of Ta-an Chü-shih; 2 unidentified.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei
opening date: 1959-10-16T04:00:00
1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).
title: Chu Ta: Selected Paintings and Calligraphy
opening date: 1972-12-02T05:00:00
Chu Ta: Selected Paintings and Calligraphy. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (organizer) (December 2, 1972-January 28, 1973); The New York Cultural Center, New York, NY (February 28-April 15, 1973).
title: The Colors of Ink
opening date: 1974-01-10T04:00:00
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).
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: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00
Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).
title: Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting
opening date: 2015-11-14T00:00:00
Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2015-April 24, 2016).
title: Flora and Fauna (Chinese art rotation)
opening date: 2020-11-06T05:00:00
Flora and Fauna (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2020-June 6, 2021).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Masterpieces of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-01-01T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Chu Ta. Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (February 28-April 14, 1973).', 'opening_date': '1973-02-28T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Main Asian Gallery Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 10-April 7, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2004-03-10T05:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
Zhang Daqian 張大千 [1899–1983]
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Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?–1953
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1953–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: VI, pl. 384-B; VII, Lists, p. 325
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Lee, Sherman E. “Some Problems in Ming and Ch'ing Landscape Painting.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 2, 1957, pp. 471–485.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 483, 484, pl. 14, fig. 19
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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. 872
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n155
Lee, Sherman E. “The Two Styles of Chu Ta.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 45, no. 9, 1958, pp. 215–219.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 216
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25142297
Goepper, Roger. Im Schatten des Wu-Tʻung-Baumes [桐陰畫訣= Tong yin hua jue]. München: Hirmer, 1959.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 31
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Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 118
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Sullivan, Michael. An Introduction to Chinese Art. London: Faber and Faber, 1961.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 195, pl. 137
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Goepper, Roger. The Essence of Chinese Painting. London: Lund Humphries, 1963.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 138, pls. 30, 31
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Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 451, 452, fig. 593
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Sullivan, Michael. Chinese and Japanese Art. New York: Grolier, 1965.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 262, fig. D
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Auboyer, Jeannine, and Roger Goepper. The Oriental World: India and South-East Asia. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 84
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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. 268
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n292
Froncek, Thomas, and Hugh Honour. The Horizon Book of the Arts of China. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 199
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Zhang, Wanli 張萬里 and Hu Renmu 胡仁牧. Badashanren shu hua ji 八大山人書畫集. Xianggang Jiulong: Kai fa gu fen you xian gong si, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 27
url:
Chu Ta: Selected Paintings & Calligraphy. Poughkeepsie, NY: The College, 1973.
page number: cat. no. 8
url:
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.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 45
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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. 356
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n376
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. 235, pp. 318-319
url:
Wang, Fangyu, Richard M. Barnhart, and Judith G. Smith. Master of the Lotus Garden: The Life and Art of Bada Shanren, 1626-1705. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Art Gallery, 1990.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 128–129, cat. no. 22
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Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 96-97
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Donley, Gregory, "Three New Curators", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 39 no. 04, April 1999
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 7
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1999-04/page/6
Thorp, Robert L., and Richard Ellis Vinograd. Chinese Art & Culture. New York: Abrams, 2001.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 332, 9-15
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: Mentioned: no. 84, pp. 79-80, 119; Reproduced: p. 78
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Schirokauer, Conrad, and Donald N. Clark. Modern East Asia: A Brief History. South Melbourne, Australia: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 2.3, p. 27
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Schirokauer, Conrad. A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations. Australia: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 384, fig. 15.3
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Convergences: Chen Wen Hsi centennial exhibition [汇流 : 陈文希百年诞辰纪念展 = Hui liu: Chen Wenxi bai nian dan chen ji nian zhan]. Singapore: Singapore Art Museum, 2006.
page number: p. 247
url:
Schirokauer, Conrad, and Miranda Brown. A Brief History of Chinese Civilization. Australia: Wadsworth, 2005.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 240, fig. 10.3
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Clunas, Craig. Art in China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 166, fig. 87
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 109
url:
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.
page number: Mentioned: p. 398
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: pp. 104-105, fig. 59
url:
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