id:			147045
accession number:	1972.68
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Solitary Colors of the Autumn Woods, first half 1600s. Wang Jianzhang (Chinese, active 1621–1662). Hanging scroll; ink and color on satin; image: 117.8 x 51.2 cm (46 3/8 x 20 3/16 in.); overall: 227 x 81.3 cm (89 3/8 x 32 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1972.68

title:				Solitary Colors of the Autumn Woods
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creation date:			first half 1600s
creation date earliest:		1628
creation date latest:		1644
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink and color on satin
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Wang Jianzhang (Chinese, active 1621–1662)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 117.8 x 51.2 cm (46 3/8 x 20 3/16 in.); Overall: 227 x 81.3 cm (89 3/8 x 32 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals:

Cold frost falls on the fences,/
Solitary colors scatter the maples./
Reciting the chapter of "The Autumn Water,"/
I cannot still the emotion in my old heart.

After the style of Fan Hua-yüan [Fan Kuan], Wang Chien-chang .

[seals] Wang shih chih yin; Chien-chang.  
trans. LYSL/HK/WKH
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1972
	opening date:   1973-02-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1972</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

	title:		Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1998-02-21T00:00:00
	<i>Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

	title:		Chinese Gallery 240a Rotation – August 2016
	opening date:   2016-08-01T04:00:00
	<i>Chinese Gallery 240a Rotation – August 2016</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1, 2016-February 6, 2017).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, cat. no. 201, p. 258.', 'opening_date': '1981-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Shogoro Yabumoto, Hyogo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1972
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1972–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Vanderstappen, Harrie A. " The Style of Some Seventeenth-Century Chinese Paintings." In <em>Artists and Traditions: Uses of the Past in Chinese Culture</em>. Edited by Christian F. Murck, pp. 149–168. Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 155, figs. 4, 5
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	Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 201, p. 258; Reproduced: cat. no. 201, p. 257
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	<em>Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara</em> [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: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 64, cat. no. 39
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