id: 159724 accession number: 1997.100 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.100 updated: 2024-06-05 11:02:02.691000 Yellow Chrysanthemums and Red Osmanthus in the Style of Wang Yuan, 1468. Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427–1509). Hanging scroll, ink on paper; overall: 397.1 x 127.4 cm (156 5/16 x 50 3/16 in.); painting only: 288.5 x 106.3 cm (113 9/16 x 41 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.100 title: Yellow Chrysanthemums and Red Osmanthus in the Style of Wang Yuan title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1468 creation date earliest: 1468 creation date latest: 1468 current location: creditline: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 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 * Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427–1509) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 397.1 x 127.4 cm (156 5/16 x 50 3/16 in.); Painting only: 288.5 x 106.3 cm (113 9/16 x 41 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals at upper right: Beneath the fence yellow [chrysanthemum] flowers brave the rain to blossom;/ Still others lean on the red osmanthus tree and dazzle the deep green moss./ With a goblet [of wine] I face them, entirely without concern;/ Who will answer the knocking at the gate where a guest has arrived? In the ninth month of the fourth year of the Chenghua era [1468], I followed the brush-conception of Wang Danxuan 王澹軒 [Wang Yuan 王淵] at the Youzhuzhuang 有竹庄 [House with Bamboo]. Inscribed and [painted] by Shen Zhou 沈周 of Changzhou 長洲. [seals] Shitian 石田; Shen shi Qinan 沈氏启南. trans. HR translation: remark: inscription: 1 additional inscription, dated 1523, and 2 seals of Wang Chong 王寵 (1494-1533). translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2017-08-14T04:00:00 Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 14, 2017-February 5, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Great Chinese painters of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, XV to XVIII: [a loan exhibition] for the benefit of the Asia Institute. Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY (March 11-April 2, 1949).", 'opening_date': '1949-03-11T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': "Mostra D'arte Cinese. Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy (1954).", 'opening_date': '1954-01-01T05:00:00Z'} * {'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': '1980-11-07T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Mrs. A. Dean Perry [Helen Wade Greene Perry] [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: c. 1960s-1997 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1997- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Dubosc, Jean-Pierre, and Laurence Sickman. A Loan Exhibition, Great Chinese Painters of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, XV to XVIII Centuries: For the Benefit of the Asia Institute, March 11 to April 2, 1949. New York, NY: Wildenstein, 1949. page number: cat. no. 6 url: Dubosc, Jean Pierre, and Alberto Giuganino. Mostra D'arte Cinese: Catalogo = Exhibition of Chinese Art: Catalogue. Venezia: Alfieri Editore, 1954. page number: cat. no. 789 url: Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: IV, 153; VI, pl. 170-B; VII, Lists, 223. url: Edwards, Richard. The Field of Stones: A Study of the Art of Shen Chou (1427-1509). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1962. page number: Reproduced: p. 15, pls. 9-C, 10-B url: Lee, Sherman. “To See Big within Small: Hsiao-Chung-Chien-Ta.” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 114, no. 830, 1972, pp. 314–324. page number: Reproduced: p. 321, fig. 64 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/876940 Lee, Sherman E. “Early Ming Painting at the Imperial Court.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 62, no. 8, 1975, pp. 243–259. page number: Reproduced: p. 254, fig. 15 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152602 Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸, Richard Edwards, and Takeo Hibino 日比野丈夫. Shin Shū, Bun Chōmei [沈周 文徴明 = Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming]. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1978. page number: Reproduced: pp. 149, 154, pl. 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: pp. 176-177, cat. no. 148 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Mentioned: pp. 245-251; Reproduced: Fig. 1, p. 246 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.100/1997.100_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.100/1997.100_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.100/1997.100_full.tif