id: 130940 accession number: 1953.629 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.629 updated: 2025-02-14 13:29:48.894000 Tall Bamboo and Distant Mountains, after Wang Meng, 1694. Wang Hui (Chinese, 1632–1717). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; painting: 79.6 x 39.4 cm (31 5/16 x 15 1/2 in.); overall with knobs: 215.8 x 61.6 cm (84 15/16 x 24 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1953.629 title: Tall Bamboo and Distant Mountains, after Wang Meng title in original language: 仿王蒙修竹遠山圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1694 creation date earliest: 1694 creation date latest: 1694 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: Hanging scroll; ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Wang Hui (Chinese, 1632–1717) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 79.6 x 39.4 cm (31 5/16 x 15 1/2 in.); Overall with knobs: 215.8 x 61.6 cm (84 15/16 x 24 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 昔文湖州有暮靄橫看。宋思陵題識卷首：觀其筆力不在郭煕之下。於樹石間寫叢竹，乃自其肺腑中流出，又不可以筆墨畦徑觀也。 子文廣文出紙求畫修竹遠山。惜乎僕之筆力，不能似郭。又敢彷彿湖州也哉？至若拙朴鄙野，縱意塗抹，聊可以寫一時之趣。姑塞廣文之雅意云。黃鶴山中人王蒙書。 歲次甲戌九月望後三日為冝翁先生臨于長安寓齋。海虞, 王翬。[印]王翬之印; 石谷子. translation: remark: inscription: 3 additional seals: 1 of Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 (1864–1949); 2 unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: 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); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983). title: Six Dynasties of Chinese Painting Part 2 opening date: 2024-05-10T04:00:00 Six Dynasties of Chinese Painting Part 2. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-September 1, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 16, 1998-January 22, 1999).', 'opening_date': '1998-10-16T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 28-August 8, 2000).', 'opening_date': '2000-04-28T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 15-April 22, 2002).', 'opening_date': '2002-01-15T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 [1864–1949] date: by 1909-? footnotes: citations: (Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1953 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1953– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Pang, Yuanji 龐元濟. Xu zhai ming hua lu (16 juan) [虛齋名畫錄 (16卷) = Catalogue of paintings in the collection of the author]. Shanghai: Xuantong ji you, 1909. page number: Mentioned: 6a-6b, pp. 19(a)-19(b) url: Pang, Yuanji 龐元濟 and Binglü Pang 龐氷履. Ming bi ji sheng [名筆集勝 = Illustrated catalogue of Chinese paintings in the author's collection]. Shanghai: Mo yuan tang, 1940. page number: Reproduced: III, pl. 11 url: Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. page number: Mentioned: p. 153, cat. no. 84; Reproduced p. 153 url: https://archive.org/details/ChineseLandscape Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: Mentioned: VII, Lists, 427 url: 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. 877 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n156 Grousset, René. Chinese Art & Culture. London: A. Deutsch, 1959. page number: Reproduced: pl. 56 url: Sullivan, Michael. An Introduction to Chinese Art. London: Faber and Faber, 1961. page number: Reproduced: p. 193, pl. 135 url: Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. page number: p. 98, no. 79 url: Gyllensväd, Bo. "Some Chinese Paintings in the Ernest Erickson Collection." The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin (BMFEA), no. 36 (1964): 159-170. page number: Comparative material. Reproduced: pls. 1-2. Mentioned: pp. 159–161 url: 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. 269 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n293 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. 269 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n293 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: cat. no. 146 url: 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. 357 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n377 Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸, Tamaki Ogawa 小川環樹, and Roderick Whitfield. Un Juhei, Ō Ki 惲壽平 王翬. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979. page number: Reproduced: pp. 145 (fig. 26, detail), p. 157 (pl. 26). url: 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. 245, pp. 331-332 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 and Reproduced: pp. 408–415 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. 103, fig. 58 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.629/1953.629_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.629/1953.629_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.629/1953.629_full.tif