id: 136949 accession number: 1961.421 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.421 updated: 2023-03-23 11:10:04.308000 Scholar Reclining and Watching Rising Clouds; Poem by Wang Wei, 1225–75. Ma Lin (Chinese, c. 1185-after 1260). Album leaf; ink on silk; image: 25.1 x 25.3 cm (9 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1961.421 title: Scholar Reclining and Watching Rising Clouds; Poem by Wang Wei title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1225–75 creation date earliest: 1225 creation date latest: 1275 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) technique: Album leaf; ink on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Ma Lin (Chinese, c. 1185-after 1260) - artist active mid 1200s --- measurements: Image: 25.1 x 25.3 cm (9 7/8 x 9 15/16 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: (Inscription for .1 - Scholar Reclining and Watching Rising Clouds) Artist's signature: Your subject, Ma Lin. 2 seals on mounting of Chu Sheng-chai (20th c.). (Inscription for .2 - Poem by Wang Wei) The inscription between the two imperial seals reads, "Presented to Chung-kuei". Seals and Colophons: The top left seal has the cyclical date "ping-ch'en" (1256): the lower left seal is the Seal for Imperial Calligraphy: 1 seal of Chu-Sheng-chai (20th Century) remounted onto the facing leaf. Remarks: The 2 lines of poetry from right to left read: "I walk unto where waters end-- And sit down to watch when clouds arise." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: Tea Taste in Japanese Art opening date: 1963-02-20T05:00:00 Tea Taste in Japanese Art. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 20-April 21, 1963). title: Wang Chi-ch'ien, Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties opening date: 1970-03-26T05:00:00 Wang Chi-ch'ien, Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. China House Gallery (organizer) (March 26-May 30, 1970). 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: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). title: Fans: East and West opening date: 1992-12-15T05:00:00 Fans: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1992-March 7, 1993). title: West Lake and the Mapping of Southern Song Art opening date: 2001-09-13T00:00:00 West Lake and the Mapping of Southern Song Art. China Institute Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 13-December 9, 2001). title: Power and Possession: Chinese Calligraphy and Inscribed Objects – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2018-08-13T04:00:00 Power and Possession: Chinese Calligraphy and Inscribed Objects – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 13, 2018-February 3, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (July 22-October 26, 2003). --- PROVENANCE (Nagatani, Inc., Chicago, IL, sold the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1961 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1961– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. Tea Taste in Japanese Art. New York, NY: The Asia House Gallery, dist. by H. Abrams, 1963. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 1, p. 94; Reproduced: cat. no. 1, p. 13 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), p. 23-39. page number: Reproduced: p. 23-39, cat. no. 5 & 6 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151985 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. 259 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n283 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. 259 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n283 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.35 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. 342 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n362 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: p. 72, cat. no. 57. url: Harrist, Robert E. Jr. "'Watching Clouds Rise': A Tang Dynasty Couplet and Its Illustration in Song Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vol. 78, No. 7 (Nov., 1991), p. 301-323. page number: Reproduced: p. 301-323, fig. 1 & 2 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161335 Murray, Julia K. Ma Hezhi and the Illustration of the Book of Odes. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1993. page number: p. 156, fig. 75 url: Cahill, James. The Lyric Journey: Poetic Painting in China and Japan. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 1996. page number: Reproduced: p. 30, no. 1.23 url: Murck, Alfreda. Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2000. page number: Reproduced: p. 200, fig. 46 url: Shimada, Hidemasa, and Fujio Nakazawa. Nansō, Kin. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 2000. page number: p. 330, no. 261 url: Pegg, Richard A. Sheng Maoye: Painting and Poetry in Late Ming Suzhou. PhD diss., Columbia University, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 274, fig. 46 b url: Li, Huishu. Exquisite Moments: West Lake & Southern Song Art. New York, NY: China Institute Gallery, China Institute: Distributed by Art Media Resources, Ltd., 2001. page number: Reproduced: pp. 104-105, cat. no. 23 url: Schorre, Jane, and Carrin Dunne. Yijing Wondering and Wandering. Houston, Tex: Arts of China Seminars, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 159 url: Edwards, Richard. The Heart of Ma Yuan: The Search for a Southern Song Aesthetic. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. page number: p. 257, fig. 8.21; xii, pl. 60a. url: Weitz, Ankeney. “The Vocabulary of Fashion: Word-Image Play in Southern Song Painted Fans,” National Palace Museum Bulletin 44 (Oct, 2011), 39-48. page number: Reproduced: p. 39-48, fig. 4 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.421/1961.421_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.421/1961.421_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.421/1961.421_full.tif