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accession number: 1953.629
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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
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creation date: 1694
creation date earliest: 1694
creation date latest: 1694
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique: Hanging scroll; ink on paper
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Wang Hui (Chinese, 1632–1717) - artist
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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.)
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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.
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inscription: 3 additional seals:
1 of Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 (1864–1949);
2 unidentified.
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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).
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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'}
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PROVENANCE
Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 [1864–1949]
date: by 1909-?
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citations:
(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
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)
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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
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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
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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. 877
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n156
Grousset, René. Chinese Art & Culture. London: A. Deutsch, 1959.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 56
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Sullivan, Michael. An Introduction to Chinese Art. London: Faber and Faber, 1961.
page number: Reproduced: p. 193, pl. 135
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Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.
page number: p. 98, no. 79
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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
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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
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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. 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
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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.
page number: Reproduced: p. 103, fig. 58
url:
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