id: 142642 accession number: 1966.367 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.367 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:19.708000 Spring Landscape, 1666. Kuncan (Chinese, 1612-c. 1673). Double album leaf mounted as a handscroll, ink and color on paper; overall: 31.8 x 64.5 cm (12 1/2 x 25 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1966.367 title: Spring Landscape title in original language: 春景圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1666 creation date earliest: 1666 creation date latest: 1666 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: double album leaf mounted as a handscroll, ink and color on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kuncan (Chinese, 1612-c. 1673) - artist Kuncan was one of the so-called Four Monks of the early Qing period. --- measurements: Overall: 31.8 x 64.5 cm (12 1/2 x 25 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 遊山忘歲月，屐舄自相過。 風露寒虚意，禪機靜裡磨。 同年叩梵宇，遂此老煙蘿。 豈向人間說，林丘自在多。 畫必師古，書亦如之。觀人亦然，况六法乎。石谿殘道人 印二：石谿，白秃。另有「介丘」一印在右邊。 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting opening date: 1967-03-24T05:00:00 Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967). title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). 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); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Fantastics and Eccentrics. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY, (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); and M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967). --- PROVENANCE Gao Yong 高邕 [1850–1921] date: footnotes: citations: Xu Xiaopu 徐小圃 [1887–1961] date: footnotes: citations: Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, date: footnotes: citations: (N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This spring scene was once accompanied by album leaves of summer (now in the Museum für Asiatiche Kunst, Berlin) and autumn and winter (now in the British Museum). digital description: wall description: One of the acclaimed "Four Monks" (the other three being Zhu Da, Daoji, and Hongren), Kuncan was known for the rough and rustic style of his landscape paintings. This painting was once part of a large album, painted at the request of his friend Cheng Zhengkui (active 1630–74), with whom he shared a common interest in painting and poetry. The inscription contains a poem, which reads: Wandering through mountains and oblivious of time, We met in casual shoes (and attires). The wind and dew drops harbor a chilling emptiness. Only with patience and silence can the Chan inspiration come. . . . --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Tang Jisheng 唐吉生, and Gao Yongzhi 高邕之. Taishan can shi lou cang hua [泰山殘石樓藏畫 = Painting collection of the Taishan can shi]. Shanghai: Xi leng yin she, 1926-29. page number: Portfolio 3, vol. 4, unpaginated url: Cahill, James, and Virginia Field. Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. New York: Asia Society; distributed by Abrams, 1967. page number: cat. no. 20 url: 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. 268 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n292 Zhang, Wanli and Hu Renmu. Badashanren shu hua ji [八大山人書畫集 = Selected paintings and calligraphy of Bada Sharen]. Li da ming hua jia zuo ping xuan ji [歷代名畫家作品選集 = Selected works of famous painters in Chinese history]. Kowloon, Hong Kong: Kai fa gu fen you xian gong si, 1969. page number: Reproduced: pl. 25 url: Cahill, James. "中国絵画における奇想と幻想-中." Kokka 國華 (April 1975): pp. 5-21. page number: fig. 18 url: Fu, Shen 傅申. Ming Qing zhi ji di ke bi gou le feng shang yu Shitao di zao qi zuo pin [明清之際的渴筆勾勒風尚與石濤的早期作品 = An aspect of mid-seventeenth century Chinese painting: The "dry linear" style and the early work of Tao-chi]. Hong Kong: Xianggang Zhong wen da xue [香港中文大學 = The Chinese University of Hong Kong], 1976. page number: p. 595 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. 356 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n376 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. 233, pp. 315-316 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: p. 360-365 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.

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