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accession number:	1997.104
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Mountain Village Embraced by the Summer, 1659. Wang Shimin (Chinese, 1592–1680). Hanging scroll, ink on paper; image: 156.2 x 73 cm (61 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.104

title:				Mountain Village Embraced by the Summer
title in original language:	夏季山居圖
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creation date:			1659
creation date earliest:		1659
creation date latest:		1659
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creditline:			Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
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culture:	China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique:	hanging scroll, ink on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Wang Shimin (Chinese, 1592–1680)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 156.2 x 73 cm (61 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Artist's inscription, signature, and 3 seals: [seal] Ouxie 偶諧. In the jihai year [1659], the fourth lunar month, I painted this for T'o-weng, my senior in our literary club, for your amusement and correction. Your junior Wang Shimin. [seals] Wang Shimin yin 王時敏印; Xunzhi 遜之.
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	inscription:	2 additional seals: 1 of Jiang Gusun [Chiang Ku-sun] 將穀孫 (20th century); 1 of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907–2003).
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</em>. 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'}

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PROVENANCE

	Jiang Gusun [Chiang Ku-sun] 將穀孫 [1900s]
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	C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to Mrs. A. Dean Perry
	date: ? before 1980
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	Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: before 1980–1997
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1997–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸, Tamaki Ogawa 小川環樹, and Roderick Whitfield. <em>Un Juhei, Ō Ki</em> 惲壽平 王翬. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 165, pl. 77
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	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: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 240, pp. 325-326
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	Suzuki, Kei. <em>Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings</em>. [Tokyo]: University of Tokyo Press, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: A23-012, p. I-287
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	Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. <em>Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang</em> 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 313, no. 35
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