id: 149628 accession number: 1979.28 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.28 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:43.755000 Looking for a Monastery in the Misty Mountains, 1500–1544. Chen Chun (Chinese, 1483–1544). Hanging scroll, ink on paper; overall: 158 x 63.5 cm (62 3/16 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1979.28 title: Looking for a Monastery in the Misty Mountains title in original language: 霧山尋隱 series: series in original language: creation date: 1500–1544 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1544 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: hanging scroll, ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Chen Chun (Chinese, 1483–1544) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 158 x 63.5 cm (62 3/16 x 25 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: Row after row of misty trees envelop the Buddhist Monastery./ But the rustic who comes to find it will not lose his way./ Just across the wooden bridge, the dusty world is cut off;/ Among the countless falling petals, birds are singing confusedly. Daofu 道複 composed [this]. [seals] Fufu shi 復甫; Baiyang shanren 白陽山人. trans. WKH/LYSL translation: remark: inscription: 3 additional unidentified seals. translation: remark: inscription: 1 additional unidentified seal on the back of the mounting. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1979 opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). 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: Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia opening date: 1987-10-02T04:00:00 Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987). title: Chinese Buddhist Art Rotation opening date: 2021-11-19T05:00:00 Chinese Buddhist Art Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2021-May 8, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1981-02-10T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (James J. Freeman, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1979 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1979- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 113. p. 84 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667 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. 179, p. 227 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. 3.11 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.28/1979.28_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.28/1979.28_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.28/1979.28_full.tif