id: 144998
accession number: 1970.19
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Summer in the Water Country, 1670s. Gong Xian (Chinese, 1599–1689). Album leaf; ink on paper; overall: 25.6 x 32.8 cm (10 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1970.19
title: Summer in the Water Country
title in original language: 水鄉清夏圖
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creation date: 1670s
creation date earliest: 1670
creation date latest: 1679
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creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique: Album leaf; ink on paper
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Gong Xian (Chinese, 1599–1689) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 25.6 x 32.8 cm (10 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
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inscriptions:
inscription: Artist's seal: Ban qian 半千.
1 additional seal unidentified.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1970
opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Kung Hsien and the Nanking school: some Chinese paintings of the seventeenth century, a loan exhibition. China House, New York, NY (March 17-April 16, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1955-03-17T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': '1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (October 16-December 13, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-10-16T04:00:00Z'}
* {'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': '1980-11-07T05:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
Richard Bryant Hobart [1885–1963], Cambridge, Massachusetts
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(Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 1970
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1970–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lippe, Aschwin. Kung Hsien and the Nanking School: Some Chinese Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, a Loan Exhibition [March 17-April 16, 1955, China House, New York City]. New York: Chinese Art Society of America, 1955.
page number: cat. no. 8
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Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956.
page number: VII, Lists, 370
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Qin, Zuyong, and Roger Goepper. Im Schatten Des Wu-T'ung-Baumes: [Gedanken Zur Malerei Von Ch'in Tsu-Yung]. Munchen: Hirmer, 1959.
page number: p. 32
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Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959.
page number: cat. no. 125
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"New Oriental art galleries at Cleveland." Apollo: A Journal of the Arts. August 1970, Vol. 92, pp. 148-151.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 9, p. 151
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Clay, Jean. L'impressionnisme. Paris: Réalités, 1971.
page number: p. 224
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Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1970.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 58, no. 2, 1971, pp. 22–71.
page number: Reproduced: p. 55; Mentioned: no. 123, p. 69
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152361
Lee, Sherman. “To See Big within Small: Hsiao-Chung-Chien-Ta.” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 114, no. 830, 1972, pp. 314–312.
page number: Reproduced: p. 322, fig. 67
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/876940
Impressionism. New York, NY: Chartwell Books Inc, 1973.
page number: Reproduced: p. 244
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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. 39
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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. 216, p. 285
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. 366-373
url:
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IMAGES
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