id: 144998 accession number: 1970.19 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.19 updated: 2022-06-30 09:00:32.561000 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 series: series in original language: creation date: 1670s creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1679 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: album leaf, ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gong Xian (Chinese, 1599-1689) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 25.6 x 32.8 cm (10 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's seal: Ban qian 半千. 1 additional seal unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art (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 (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * 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). * 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (October 16-December 13, 1959). * 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). --- PROVENANCE Richard Bryant Hobart [1885–1963], Cambridge, Massachusetts date: footnotes: citations: (Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1970 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1970– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: VII, Lists, 370 url: 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 url: Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. page number: cat. no. 125 url: "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 url: Clay, Jean. L'impressionnisme. Paris: Réalités, 1971. page number: p. 224 url: 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, N.Y.: Chartwell Books Inc, 1973. page number: Reproduced: p. 244 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: cat. no. 39 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. 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: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.19/1970.19_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.19/1970.19_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.19/1970.19_full.tif