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accession number: 1970.76
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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
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creation date: c. 1480–1507
creation date earliest: 1475
creation date latest: 1507
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique: Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Lu Wenying (Chinese) - artist
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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.)
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inscription: 呂文英 [印] 日近清光
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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: 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).
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 Yun-Fei: Last Days of Village Wen
opening date: 2016-02-12T00:00:00
Ji Yun-Fei: Last Days of Village Wen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-July 31, 2016).
title: China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00
China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-November 17, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2004-07-13T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Kinzen Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 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
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
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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
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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. 139, p. 164
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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
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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:
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