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accession number:	1997.105
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Shade of Pines in a Cloudy Valley, 1660. Wang Jian (Chinese, 1598–1677). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; overall: 128.2 x 61 cm (50 1/2 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.105

title:				Shade of Pines in a Cloudy Valley
title in original language:	雲壑松陰
series:				
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creation date:			1660
creation date earliest:		1660
creation date latest:		1660
current location:		
creditline:			Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
copyright:			

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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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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Wang Jian (Chinese, 1598–1677)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 128.2 x 61 cm (50 1/2 x 24 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Artist's inscription, signature, and seal: Painted at Yiyage in imitation of Wang Meng's Shade of Pines in a Cloudy Valley during the Qingming Festival of the gengzi year [1660]. Wang Jian [seal] Wang Jian zhi yin.
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	inscription:	2 additional seals: 1 of Bi Long 畢瀧 (18th c.); 1 unidentified.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei
	opening date:   1959-10-16T04:00:00
	<i>1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei</i>. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).

* <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).

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PROVENANCE

	Bi Long 畢瀧 [18th century]
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	C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to Mrs. A. Dean Perry
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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

	Lee, Sherman E. <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.
	page number: 	cat. no. 83
	url:		

	Sirén, Osvald. <em>Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles</em>. New York: Ronald Press, 1956.
	page number: 	Mentioned: vol. VII, Lists, 421
	url:		

	Goepper, Roger. <em>Im Schatten des Wu-Tʻung-Baumes </em>[桐陰畫訣= Tong yin hua jue]. München: Hirmer, 1959.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. 23
	url:		

	Goepper, Roger. <em>1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei</em>. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959.
	page number: 	cat. no. 90
	url:		

	Lee, Sherman E. <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.
	page number: 	p. 97, no. 78
	url:		

	Goepper, Roger. <em>The Essence of Chinese Painting</em>. London: Lund Humphries, 1963.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 74, 219; Reproduced: pls. 78, 79
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	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. 167, pl. 90
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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. 241, pp. 326-327
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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: #A23-009, 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. 36
	url:		

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