id: 139831 accession number: 1963.589 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.589 updated: 2023-03-22 14:08:02.316000 Travelers in Autumn Mountains, 1300–50. Sheng Mou (Chinese, active c. 1310–1350). Album leaf, ink and slight color on silk; image: 24.4 x 26.5 cm (9 5/8 x 10 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1963.589 title: Travelers in Autumn Mountains title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1300–50 creation date earliest: 1310 creation date latest: 1350 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin copyright: --- culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) technique: album leaf, ink and slight color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Sheng Mou (Chinese, active c. 1310–1350) - artist --- measurements: Image: 24.4 x 26.5 cm (9 5/8 x 10 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 盛 ? translation: remark: inscription: 10 collectors' seals: 8 of Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640-1686); 2 of Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 (late 1600s-early 1700s), son of Geng Zhaozhong. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei opening date: 1959-10-16T04:00:00 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959). title: Fifteen Chinese Paintings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1964-10-09T04:00:00 Fifteen Chinese Paintings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (October 9-28, 1964). title: Year in Review (1964) opening date: 1964-12-08T05:00:00 Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965). 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: 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968) * Wang Chi-ch'ien, Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. China House Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (March 26-May 30, 1970). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 27, 2003-March 10, 2004). --- PROVENANCE Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 [1640-1686], to his son Geng Jiazuo date: footnotes: citations: Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 [late 1600s-early 1700s] date: footnotes: citations: C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907-2003], New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: (Walter Hochstadter [1914-2007], New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin) date: footnotes: citations: Severance A. [1895-1985] and Greta Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1963 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1963- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Most of the signature of the artist has been scraped away, so that only the character "Sheng" is legible. digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. page number: cat. no. 31 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. 10 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151985 Sullivan, Michael. Chinese and Japanese Art. New York: Grolier, 1965. page number: Reproduced: pp. 69-70, 182 url: Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. page number: cat. no. 232 url: Wang, Chi-chʻien. Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. New York. China House Gallery. Catalogues. 1968-70. New York: China House Gallery, the China Institute in America, 1970. page number: cat. no. 49 url: 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. 13 url: Lee, Sherman E. “Early Ming Painting at the Imperial Court.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 62, no. 8, 1975, pp. 243–259. page number: Reproduced: p. 245, fig. 1 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152602 Sullivan, Michael. Symbols of Eternity: The Art of Landscape Painting in China. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1979. page number: Reproduced: p. 105, pl. 61 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. 108, p. 133 url: Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 24, p. 309 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.589/1963.589_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.589/1963.589_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.589/1963.589_full.tif