id: 141186 accession number: 1964.43 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.43 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:11.969000 Old Pine Tree, late 1530s. Wen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470–1559). Handscroll, ink on paper; painting: 28 x 139.3 cm (11 x 54 13/16 in.); overall: 29.3 x 596.9 cm (11 9/16 x 235 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1964.43 title: Old Pine Tree title in original language: 畫松圖 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1530s creation date earliest: 1535 creation date latest: 1539 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: handscroll, ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Wen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470–1559) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 28 x 139.3 cm (11 x 54 13/16 in.); Overall: 29.3 x 596.9 cm (11 9/16 x 235 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 變化勢難縛，虬髯似戟森. 徵明 [印]文徵明印; 衡山 translation: remark: inscription: 2 partial seals of Qian Shisheng 錢士昇 (1575-1652) translation: remark: inscription: 8 imperial seals: 6 of the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-95); 1 of the Jiaqing emperor (r. 1796-1821); 1 of the Xuantong emperor (r. 1909-11). translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: 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: Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia opening date: 1990-07-24T04:00:00 Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 24-November 25, 1990). title: Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting opening date: 2015-11-14T00:00:00 Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2015-April 24, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Mostra d'arte cinese (Settimo centenario di Marco Polo). Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy (1954).", 'opening_date': '1954-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Art of Wen Cheng-ming. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (January 25-February 29, 1976); Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (April 7-June 7, 1976)', 'opening_date': '1976-01-25T00:00:00'} * {'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).', 'opening_date': '1981-02-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 28, 2014-January 7, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2014-07-28T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Qian Shisheng 錢士昇 [1575–1652] date: footnotes: citations: Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperors Qianlong, r. 1736–1795; Jiaqing, r. 1796–1820; and Xuanzong, r. 1909-11) date: at least by 1736-c. 1911 footnotes: citations: (Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904–1988], Paris, France, sold 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: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Mi dian zhu lin/Shi qu bao ji 秘殿珠林石渠寶笈. 2 vols. Taipei: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan [National Palace Museum], 1971. (Original text dated 1745.) page number: Mentioned; vol. 1, p. 602 url: Ferguson, John C 福開森. Li dai zhu lu hua mu 歷代著錄畵目. Nanjing: Chin-ling University, Zhong guo wen hua yan jiu suo 金陵大學中國文化硏究所, 1934. page number: p. 23 url: Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: Mentioned: VII, Lists, 263 url: 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. 264 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n288 Lee, Sherman E. “Literati and Professionals: Four Ming Painters.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 53, no. 1, 1966, pp. 2–25. page number: Reproduced: pp. 7, 8, fig. 2 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152081 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. 264 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n288 Clapp, Anne de Coursey. Wen Cheng-Ming: The Ming Artist and Antiquity. Ascona: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1975. page number: Reproduced: pp. 75, 76, fig. 39 url: Edwards, Richard. The Art of Wen Cheng-Ming (1470-1559). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1976. page number: cat. no. XVII 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. 350 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n370 Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸, Richard Edwards, and Takeo Hibino 日比野丈夫. Shin Shū, Bun Chōmei [沈周 文徴明 = Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming]. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 168, pl. 61 url: Watson, William. L'art de l'ancienne Chine. Paris: Mazenod, 1979. page number: Reproduced: pl. 150 url: Wilson, J. Keith. "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 8 (1990): 286-323. page number: Reproduced: p. 308-09, 323 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161297 Laozi 老子 and James Legge, translator. Tao Te Ching 道德经. New York: Metro Books, 2008. page number: Reproduced: fig. 33 url: 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. 270-278 url: Li, T. June. "Debts of Gratitude." Orientations 49, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 2018): 117-119. page number: Reproduced: no. 119, fig. 3 url: Spee, Clarissa von, Cai Guo-Qiang, and David Stradling. Cai Guo-Qiang: Cuyahoga River Lightning. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 48 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.43/1964.43_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.43/1964.43_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.43/1964.43_full.tif