id:			149682
accession number:	1979.70
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.70
updated:		2023-04-20 11:07:12.615000

Squirrels on the Chestnut Tree, 1300s. Ge Shuying (Chinese, active 1300s). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; image: 97 x 39.4 cm (38 3/16 x 15 1/2 in.); overall: 181.6 x 58 cm (71 1/2 x 22 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1979.70

title:				Squirrels on the Chestnut Tree
title in original language:	松鼠圖
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creation date:			1300s
creation date earliest:		1300
creation date latest:		1399
current location:		
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
technique:	Hanging scroll; ink on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Ge Shuying (Chinese, active 1300s)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 97 x 39.4 cm (38 3/16 x 15 1/2 in.); Overall: 181.6 x 58 cm (71 1/2 x 22 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1979
	opening date:   1980-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1979</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).

	title:		Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting
	opening date:   1981-02-11T05:00:00
	<i>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</i>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-July 16, 2003).

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PROVENANCE

	(S. Yabumoto Co., Ltd., Tokyo, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1979
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art,Cleveland, OH
	date: 1979–
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wall description:
Songtian is known for his depictions of squirrels in a monochrome style characterized by crisp, decisive brushstrokes. He may have been a Chan (Zen) priest-painter,or perhaps a Daoist painter, active in the Hangzhou region of China. From there his works spread to Japan.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Matsudaira, Yorihira 松平賴平, Munetō Tayama 田山宗堯, and Yuijirō Kamei 龜井唯二郎. <em>Shōbi shiryō</em> 尚美資料. Tōkyō: Shōbikai, 1917.
	page number: 	Reproduced: vol. II, unnumbered plate
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	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 67, no. 3 (1980): 58–99.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 125, p. 83; Mentioned: p. 62
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667

	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. 79, pp. 97–99
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	Rogers, Howard<em>. "</em>Questioning Authority." <em>Orientations</em>, January/February 2005, vol. 36 Issue 1, pp. 56–63.
	page number: 	Reproduced:  p. 59
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	Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 130–132
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