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"tombstone": "Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf H (previous leaf 8) (\u5c71\u6c34\u5716\u518a), 1668. Xiao Yuncong (Chinese, 1596\u20131673). Album leaf; ink and light color on paper; overall: 21 x 15.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1955.302.8",
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"title": "Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf H (previous leaf 8)",
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"inscription": "Artist's inscription, signature, and 8 seals:\n\nLeaf H.\n\nWhen the winter sun warms up the door, the day begins; \nI clean up my black leather shoes to break off from the dusty world. \nPrunus blossoms again bloom on the tree in front of the pavilion; \nTheir fragrance penetrates the eaves and satisfies my innermost self.\n\nIn the wushen year [1668], tenth month, the old man of seventy-three, Yuncong. [seal] Xiao Yuncong.",
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"inscription": "9 additional seals: 2 of Chen Yixi \u9673\u5955\u79a7 (1646\u20131709); 4 of Li Yufen \u674e\u7389\u68fb [Li Yunhu \u674e\u97f5\u6e56] (active mid-1800s); 3 unidentified.",
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"title": "The Colors of Ink",
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"title": "The Plum Scenery Studio: Wu Hufan and His Circle in Modern Shanghai",
"description": "The Plum Scenery Studio: Wu Hufan and His Circle in Modern Shanghai. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 31-November 8, 2026).",
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"description": "Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).",
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"description": "(Frank Caro [1904\u20131980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "?\u20131955",
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"did_you_know": "The hardy white prunus blossoms in the poetic inscription and the painting itself identify this as a late winter scene.",
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"description": "Throughout his lifetime, Xiao Yuncong visited Nanjing and Yangzhou, cities embedded in the fertile and water-rich Jiangnan region, as reflected in his paintings. Xiao painted from nature, and his landscapes are informed by the seasons and his travels, as well as by his experience as a print designer. Xiao\u2019s fresh, light colors continue to appear in later Shanghai school paintings.
This album was formerly in the collection of Li Yufen in Yangzhou and then owned by Wu Hufan in Shanghai. While the artist impressed his seal consistently below his poetic inscriptions in the upper parts of the composition, the red seals on the margins and in the lower corners of the paintings are impressions by the album\u2019s previous owners.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cAn Album of Landscapes by Hsiao Y\u00fcn-Ts'ung.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 44, no. 6, 1957, pp. 121\u2013125.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 121-125; Reproduced: p. 123",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 874",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.",
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"citation": "Rosenzweig, Daphne Lange. \"A Landscape Handscroll by Hsiao Y\u00fcn-ts'ung.\" Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 32, no. 1 (1974-75): pp. 34-56.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 43, 44, 51, figs. 10-12",
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"citation": "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.",
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"citation": "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. 224, pp. 300-301",
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"citation": "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.",
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