id: 143776 accession number: 1968.213 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.213 updated: 2024-04-04 11:13:06.877000 Clouds and Waves at the Wu Gorge, c. 1547–67. Xie Shichen (Chinese, 1487–after 1567). Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper; painting: 243.1 x 90 cm (95 11/16 x 35 7/16 in.); overall with knobs: 295.6 x 115 cm (116 3/8 x 45 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1968.213 title: Clouds and Waves at the Wu Gorge title in original language: 巫峽雲濤圖 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1547–67 creation date earliest: 1542 creation date latest: 1572 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Xie Shichen (Chinese, 1487–after 1567) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 243.1 x 90 cm (95 11/16 x 35 7/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 295.6 x 115 cm (116 3/8 x 45 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: "巫峽雲濤" 謝時臣寫 [印] 姑蘇台下逸人; 樗仙 translation: remark: inscription: 5 additional seals of Cheng Qi 程琦 (1911–1988). translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1968 opening date: 1969-01-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969). title: The Paintings of Hsieh Shih-ch'en opening date: 1978-01-11T05:00:00 The Paintings of Hsieh Shih-ch'en. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (organizer) (January 11-February 26, 1978). 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: Ji Yunfei: Last Days of Village Wen opening date: 2016-02-12T00:00:00 Ji Yunfei: Last Days of Village Wen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-July 31, 2016). title: Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2017-08-14T04:00:00 Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 14, 2017-February 5, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'To-So-Gen-Min, II. Tokyo Imperial Museum, Tokyo, Japan (November 24-December 16, 1928).', 'opening_date': '1928-11-24T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': "Hsieh Shih-ch'en: a Ming dynasty painter reinterprets the past. Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (January 12-February 26, 1978).", 'opening_date': '1978-01-12T05:00:00Z'} * {'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': '1980-11-06T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-10-29T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Tanaka Buhei 田中武兵衛 [early 1900s], Tokyo, Japan date: footnotes: citations: (Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988], Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1968 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1968– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Tō Sō Gen Min meigaten-gō [唐宋元明名画展号]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Asahi Shinbun Hakkōjo, 1928. page number: I, 134 url: Harada, Kinjirō 原田謹次郎. Shina meiga hōkan [支那名畫寶鑒 = The pageant of Chinese painting]. Tōkyō: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha, 1936. page number: pl. 605 url: Sirén, Osvald. A History of Later Chinese Painting. London: The Medici Society, 1938. page number: Mentioned: I, Lists, 215 url: Harada, Kinjirō 原田謹次郎. Nihon genzai Shina meiga mokuroku 日本現在支那名畫目錄. Tōkyō: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha, 1938. page number: p. 172 url: Zheng, Zhenduo 鄭振鐸. Yu wai suo cang Zhongguo gu hua ji [8 zhong, 8 ji] 域外所藏中國古畫集 [8種, 8輯]. Shanghai: Shanghai chu ban gong si, 1947. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: ser. 6, pt. 2, pl. 57 url: Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: Mentioned: VII, Lists, 192. 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. 351 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n371 Lawton, Mary S. Hsieh Shih-Chʻên: A Ming Dynasty Painter Reinterprets the Past. Chicago: The University, 1978. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 1 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. 169, pp. 214-215 url: Steuber, Jason. China: 3000 Years of Art and Literature. New York: Welcome Books, 2007. page number: p. 64 url: Fu, Li-tsui Flora. Framing Famous Mountains: Grand Tour and Mingshan Paintings in Sixteenth-Century China. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2009. page number: Reproduced: Plate 12 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. 279-281 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.213/1968.213_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.213/1968.213_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.213/1968.213_full.tif