id: 136464 accession number: 1960.41 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.41 updated: 2023-03-29 11:09:59.108000 Man, Buffalo, and Calf, 1205 or 1265. Li You (Chinese, 1200s). Album leaf; ink and color on silk; image: 25 x 26.7 cm (9 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1960.41 title: Man, Buffalo, and Calf title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1205 or 1265 creation date earliest: 1205 creation date latest: 1265 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) technique: album leaf; ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Li You (Chinese, 1200s) - artist --- measurements: Image: 25 x 26.7 cm (9 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's inscription: [In] the yichou 乙丑 year, Li 李 [second character not identified] painted. translation: remark: inscription: 3 seals: 1 of Wu T'ing (c. 1600); 1 of An Kuo (1481–1534); 1 of Li Pao-hsün (1858–1915) translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). title: The Art of Southern Sung China opening date: 1962-02-15T05:00:00 The Art of Southern Sung China. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 15-April 15, 1962). 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: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Art of Southern Sung China. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (1962). * Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. China House Gallery, New York, NY (March 26-May 30, 1970). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 11-July 13, 2004). --- PROVENANCE (J.T. Tai sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1960 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1960- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Li You included such tiny details as circular patterns of hair on the buffalo’s hindquarters. digital description: wall description: This round fan painting by Li You depicts a rustic theme. His rendering of the scene was bold, exquisite, and detailed. In such a small format, Li took care to portray the warm relationship between cow and calf. In a small space under the tree, he shows an indifferent herder, who turns away from his charges to focus on a small falcon, which obviously was more compelling to him. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” October 4, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0616 Cahill, James. The Art of Southern Sung China. New York: Asia House, 1962. page number: cat. no. 26 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. 23-39, cat. no. 9 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151985 Wang, Chi-chʻien. Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties: [Exhibition], March 26 Through May 30, 1970. New York: The [China House] Gallery, 1970. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 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. 41, pp. 56-57 url: Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 44, cat. no. 21 url: "Art of Japan: Paintings, Prints and Screens: Selected articles from Orientations 1984-2002." Orientations Magazine (2002). page number: Reproduced: fig. 9, p. 136 url: 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: p. 99, fig. 1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.41/1960.41_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.41/1960.41_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.41/1960.41_full.tif