id: 148383 accession number: 1975.94 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.94 updated: 2020-11-04 21:17:10.033000 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: series: series in original language: creation date: 1530 creation date earliest: 1530 creation date latest: 1530 current location: 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: 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. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). --- 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, China date: footnotes: citations: Tseng Hsien-chi [1919-2000], ?-1975, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1975 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1975-present date: 1975- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- 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