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"inscription": "Artist's titles, signatures, and 21 seals:\n\nA. Scholars in a Garden. Hung-shou painted for old Chung. [seal] Chang-hou.\nB. Lao-tzu Riding an Ox. Hung-shou respectfully painted. [seal] Ch'en yin Hung-shou.\nC. Narcissus and Bare Trees. The Taoist Chung-ch'ing entrusted Lao-lien to paint [this]. [seal] Chang-hou.\nD. Autumn Landscape. Lao-lien painted this for Lao-ts'ang. [seal] Chang-hou.\nE. Portrait of T'ao Yuan-ming. Lao-lien [seal] Hung-shou.\nF. Lotus and Rocks. Hung-shou painted after the style of Ts'ui Po and presented it to the Buddhist disciple Lin Chung-ch'ing. [seal] Chang-hou.\nG. Taoist and Crane in Autumn Landscape. The old man Fu-ch'ih painted for the Taoist Chung-ch'ing. [seal] Chang-hou.\nH. Portrait of Chung-ch'ing in a Landscape. Lao-lien painted for Chung-ch'ing. [2 seals] Chang-hou; Ch'en yin Hung-shou.\nI. Chrysanthemum and Rock. Hung-shou [seal] Hung-shou.\nJ. Landscape in the Style of Ni Tsan. Lao-lien [seal] Chang-hou.\nL. Mr. Five Willows (Wu-liu), T'ao Yung-ming. Mr. Five Willows Chung-ch'ing entrusted Hung-shou to paint [this]. [seal] Chang-hou.\nM. A Lohan [after Kuan-hsui]. Buddhist disciple Ch'en Hung-shou respectfully painted. [2 seals] Chun-t'i ti-tzu; Chang-hou.\nN. A Bird and Peach-Blossom Branch. Hui-lun-shang painted after Tao-chun [Emperor Hui-tsung] and presented it to Ts'ang-fu chu-chih. [seal] Ch'en yin Hung-shou.\nO. Travellers in an Autumn Landscape. Hung-shou [seal] Chang-hou.\nP. A Lady. Hung-shou [seal] Hung-shou.\nQ. Crysanthemum. Hung-shou painted in imitation of the Northern Sung style for Taoist friend, Ts'ang-fu. [seal] Chang-hou.\nR. Scholar Reading in a Thatched Hut by a Waterfall. Chung-ch'ing entrusted Hung-shou to paint. [seal] Chang-hou.\nS. Scholar with Staff and Brush. Hung-shou [seal] Chang-hou.\nT. An Ancient Tree. Hung-shou [seal] Chang-hou.\nU. Rock, Old Tree, and Bamboo. Hung-shou [seal] Hung-shou.",
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"inscription": "2 colophons (leaves K and V) and 34 additional seals: 24 seals of Lin Chung-ch'ing (Lin Ts'ang-fu or Lin T'ing-tung, friend of Chen Hongshou, for whom the album was painted); 2 colophons, dated 1893 and 1899, and 5 seals of Weng Tonghe \u7fc1\u540c\u9fa2 (1830-1904); 2 seals of Weng Tongjue \u7fc1\u540c\u7235 (older brother of Weng Tonghe; 1814-1877); 2 seals of Weng Wan-go \u7fc1\u842c\u6208 (1918-2020); 1 unidentified.",
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"title": "Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China",
"description": "Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 10, 1988).",
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"title": "Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection",
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"description": "Five centuries of Chinese painting: Ming & Ch'ing dynasties. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (June 27\u2013August 8, 1954).",
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"description": "Chinese Art: An Exhibition of Paintings, Jades, Bronzes and Ceramics: Being a Contribution Made by Smith College Museum of Art to the College Interim Session, 1962. Northampton, MA (1962). (leaves A-J)",
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"description": "Fantastics and Eccentrics. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY, (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); and M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967).",
"opening_date": "1967-03-23T05:00:00Z"
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"description": "Chinese Painting from the Two Distinguished American Museums. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (October 4-November 17,1982).",
"opening_date": "1982-10-04T04:00:00Z"
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"description": "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).",
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"description": "Weng Tonghe \u7fc1\u540c\u9fa2 [1830\u20131904], by descent to Wango H. C. Weng",
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"did_you_know": "Chen Hongshou made this double album with twenty paintings for a friend, Lin Zhongqing.",
"description": "The twenty paintings in this double album by Chen Hongshou include landscapes, figures, and flowers. It also has one leaf featuring a woman, an often-used subject not found in the other albums from the latter part of his career. His late works are wonderful summations of Chen's peculiar and quirky art\u2014archaistic, hyper-refined\u2014but without accompanying shallowness or sentimentality.
His figures and landscapes in the late albums are miniaturized, not unlike the small Chinese gardens, or the carefully selected small table rocks or old roots used for contemplation to see the world in miniature. This loss of scale is quite deliberate and reflects the psychological situation of a depressed class like the Ming loyalist officials and scholars, deprived of their integrity and honor, and forced to lead a diminished and restricted existence.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1979.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.",
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"citation": "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": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 207, pp. 268\u2013272",
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"citation": "Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.",
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