id: 140267 accession number: 1964.242 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.242 updated: 2023-04-20 11:07:11.539000 A Pair of Peafowl, late 1400s-early 1500s. Lin Liang (Chinese, 1416–1480). Hanging scroll, ink on silk; painting: 160 x 106 cm (63 x 41 3/4 in.); overall with knobs: 256.5 x 133.3 cm (101 x 52 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.242 title: A Pair of Peafowl title in original language: 孔雀竹石圖 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1400s-early 1500s creation date earliest: 1485 creation date latest: 1505 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: hanging scroll, ink on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Lin Liang (Chinese, 1416–1480) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 160 x 106 cm (63 x 41 3/4 in.); Overall with knobs: 256.5 x 133.3 cm (101 x 52 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 林良. [印] 以善圖書 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: 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: The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection opening date: 1990-07-05T04:00:00 The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990). title: Flora and Fauna (Chinese art rotation) opening date: 2020-11-06T05:00:00 Flora and Fauna (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2020-June 6, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Jiao yu bu di er ci quan guo mei shu zhan lan hui zhuan ji [敎育部第二次全國美術展覽會專集 = A special collection of the second National Exhibition of Chinese Art under the auspices of the Ministry of Education]. Shanghai or Nanjing?, China (April 1-23, 1937). * The Colors of Ink. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (January 10-March 3,1974). * Imperial Paintings of the Ming Dynasty: The Zhe School. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 14-April 11, 1993). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 28, 2014-January 7, 2015). --- PROVENANCE Gao Jianfu 高劍父 [1878–1951] date: footnotes: citations: (Walter Hochstadter [1914-2007], Hong Kong, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Millikin) date: footnotes: citations: Severance A. [1895-1985] and Greta Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1964 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1964- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The peacock, identified by the flamboyant tail, is paired with a female peahen to its right. In lowering her head, the hen seems to show respect to the male peacock.

With his articulate brushstrokes and strong contrasting tones, Lin Liang’s representation in black ink appears as vivid as Yin Hong’s colorful peacock (1974.31). The painter skillfully uses wet and dry ink as well as broad and thin washes to represent the plumage of the bird. The surface of the rocks, depicted in powerful sweeping strokes, recalls the landscape painting style of the Zhe School, which specialized in expressive brushwork. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Jiao yu bu di er ci quan guo mei shu zhan lan hui zhuan ji [敎育部第二次全國美術展覽會專集 = A special collection of the second National Exhibition of Chinese Art under the auspices of the Ministry of Education]. [Nanjing?]: Shang wu yin shu guan, 1937. page number: no. 114 url: Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: Mentioned: VII, Lists, 210 url: Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. page number: Reproduced: pp. 78-79, fig. 44 url: Goepper, Roger. Chinesische Malerei: die jüngere Tradition. Bern: Hallwag, 1960. page number: Reproduced: pp. 44-45 url: Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. page number: Reproduced: pp. 425-426, fig. 568 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: Reproduced: fig. 1 url: Cahill, James. Parting at the Shore: Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty, 1368-1580. New York: Weatherhill, 1978. page number: Mentioned: p. 55 url: Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990. page number: Mentioned; cat. no. 150, p. 87; Reproduced: pl. 27 url: Chen, Pao-chen 陳葆真. "A Study of Lin Liang and His Paintings," National Palace Museum Bulletin 故宮通訊, vol. XXVII, no. 4 (September-October 1992). page number: Reproduced: p. 15, pl. 4 url: Barnhart, Richard M., Mary Ann Rogers, and Richard Stanley-Baker. Painters of the Great Ming: The Imperial Court and the Zhe School. Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 53, p. 201 url: Sung, Hou-Mei. “The Three Yin Masters of the Ming Court: Yin Shan, Yin Xie and Yin Hong.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 58, no. 1/2, 1998, pp. 91–113. page number: Reproduced: fig. 11, p. 104 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249996 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: Reproduced: pp. 229-232 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.242/1964.242_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.242/1964.242_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.242/1964.242_full.tif