id: 145426 accession number: 1970.76 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.76 updated: 2022-11-30 10:01:02.949000 River Village in a Rainstorm, c. 1480–1507. Lu Wenying (Chinese). Hanging scroll, ink and slight color on silk; painting: 170.5 x 103.4 cm (67 1/8 x 40 11/16 in.); overall with knobs: 279.6 x 134.3 cm (110 1/16 x 52 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1970.76 title: River Village in a Rainstorm title in original language: 江村風雨圖 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1480–1507 creation date earliest: 1475 creation date latest: 1507 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: hanging scroll, ink and slight color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Lu Wenying (Chinese) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 170.5 x 103.4 cm (67 1/8 x 40 11/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 279.6 x 134.3 cm (110 1/16 x 52 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 呂文英 [印] 日近清光 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: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting opening date: 1981-02-10T05:00:00 Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983). title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). title: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00 Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). 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 (organizer) (February 12-July 31, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-November 17, 2004). --- PROVENANCE (Kinzen Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1970 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1970- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: A young boy peeks out a window perhaps viewing the two people struggling through the rain. digital description: wall description: Over this vista, the diagonal sweeps of the storm—the bands of wind and rain that conceal the land and stir up the river while bending all the vegetation—intensify its unstoppable momentum. Beneath the blur of nature’s fury are buildings and pavilions, or human settlements that remain peaceful and unaffected. This is not a depiction of a catastrophe, but rather an appreciation of nature’s awesome power. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chūgoku bijutsu 中國美術. Tōkyō: Kōdansha, 1972. page number: Mentioned and Printed; II, pt. 2, pp. 215-216, pl. 3 url: Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Ri Tō, Ba En, Ka Kei 李唐・馬遠・夏珪. Tōkyō: Kōdansha, Shōwa 49 [1974]. page number: Reproduced: p. 168, pl. 73 url: Lee, Sherman E. “Early Ming Painting at the Imperial Court.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 62, no. 8, 1975, pp. 243–259. page number: Reproduced: p. 251, figs. 11-13 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152602 Kawakami, Kei 川上涇, and Takeyoshi Tsuruta 鶴田武. Chūgoku no meiga 中国の名画. Tōkyō: Sekai Bunkasha, 1980. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: X, 38, p. 36 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. 348 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n368 Cahill, James. Parting at the Shore: Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty, 1368-1580. New York: Weatherhill, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 108, pl. 51 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. 139, p. 164 url: Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chugoku kaiga shi [中國繪畫史 = A History of Chinese Painting]. Tōkyō: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 62, cat. no. 60 url: Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 57, cat. no. 33 url: Nishioka, Yasuhiro 西岡康宏 and Noriko Miyazaki 宮崎法子. Min 明. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 27, no. 12 url: Watson, William. The Arts of China 900-1620. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. page number: Reproduced: p. 182, fig. 272 url: Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. page number: Reproduced: p. 102, fig. 5 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 260-263 url: Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 153, fig. 85 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.76/1970.76_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.76/1970.76_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.76/1970.76_full.tif