id:			148383
accession number:	1975.94
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.94
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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
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creation date:			1530
creation date earliest:		1530
creation date latest:		1530
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture:	China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
technique:	handscroll, ink and light color on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Handscroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Xie Shichen (Chinese, 1487-after 1567)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 40.3 x 425.4 cm (15 7/8 x 167 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	Artist's inscription, signature, and seal:  Returning to the Village in a Rainstorm.  On an autumn day, the keng-yin year of the Chia-ching era [1530].  Shu-hsien, Hsieh Shih-ch'en [seal] Hsieh Shih-ch'en yin.

3 additional seals unidentified.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Paintings of Hsieh Shih-ch'en
	opening date:   1978-01-11T05:00:00
	<i>The Paintings of Hsieh Shih-ch'en</i>. 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
	<i>Visions of Landscape: East and West</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Hsieh shih-ch`en: a Ming dynasty painter reinterprets the past</em>. David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago (January 12-February 26, 1978).

* <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</em>. 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).

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PROVENANCE

	Dr. H. Müller, Peking, China
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	Tseng Hsien-chi [1919-2000], ?-1975, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1975
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1975-present
	date: 1975-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lawton, Mary S. <em>Hsieh Shih-Chʻên: A Ming Dynasty Painter Reinterprets the Past</em>. Chicago: The University, 1978.
	page number: 	cat. no. 3
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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: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 168, pp. 212-214
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	"Visions of Landscape East and West." <em>Asia</em> Vol. 4, No. 5 (January/February 1982): pp. 24-29.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 24-25
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	Greene, David B. <em>How to Respond to Strangeness in Art: Four Studies in the Unfamiliar</em>. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 3.10
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