id: 148383 accession number: 1975.94 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.94 updated: 2023-09-19 11:02:25.438000 Returning to the Village in a Rainstorm, 1530. Xie Shichen (Chinese, 1487–after 1567). Handscroll; ink and light color on silk; overall: 40.3 x 425.4 cm (15 7/8 x 167 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1975.94 title: Returning to the Village in a Rainstorm title in original language: 風雨歸村圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1530 creation date earliest: 1530 creation date latest: 1530 current location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: Handscroll; ink and light color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Xie Shichen (Chinese, 1487–after 1567) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 40.3 x 425.4 cm (15 7/8 x 167 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 風雨歸村圖 嘉靖庚寅秋日樗仙謝時臣. [印] 謝時臣印 translation: remark: inscription: 3 additional seals unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Paintings of Hsieh Shih-ch'en opening date: 1978-01-11T05:00:00 The Paintings of Hsieh Shih-ch'en. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (organizer) (January 11-February 26, 1978). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan) opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00 China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Hsieh shih-ch`en: a Ming dynasty painter reinterprets the past. David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago (January 12-February 26, 1978). * 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 Dr. H. Müller, Peking [Beijing], China date: footnotes: citations: (Tseng Hsien-chi [1919–2000], Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1975 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1975– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This scroll depicts a wind- and rainswept landscape with figures in the countryside struggling against a late summer monsoon rainstorm. Such weather was familiar to residents of the lower Yangzi delta.

Xie Shichen spent most of his life in the Suzhou area. Details of his career are scant, but his surviving works suggest that he made his living as a professional painter. This painting conveys drama and anecdotal observations, characteristic of Zhe school paintings, such as the one by Lü Wenying, CMA 1970.76. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lawton, Mary S. Hsieh Shih-Chʻên: A Ming Dynasty Painter Reinterprets the Past. Chicago: The University, 1978. page number: cat. no. 3 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. 168, pp. 212-214 url: "Visions of Landscape East and West." Asia Vol. 4, No. 5 (January/February 1982): pp. 24-29. page number: Reproduced: pp. 24-25 url: Greene, David B. How to Respond to Strangeness in Art: Four Studies in the Unfamiliar. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. page number: Reproduced: fig. 3.10 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.94/1975.94_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.94/1975.94_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.94/1975.94_full.tif