id: 160136
accession number: 1997.94
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Writing Books under the Pine Trees, c. 1308–85. Wang Meng (Chinese, c. 1308–1385). Album leaf; ink and color on paper; painting: 39.8 x 56.9 cm (15 11/16 x 22 3/8 in.); overall: 67.6 x 71.4 cm (26 5/8 x 28 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry, 1997.94
title: Writing Books under the Pine Trees
title in original language: 松下著書圖
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creation date: c. 1308–85
creation date earliest: 1303
creation date latest: 1385
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creditline: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
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culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
technique: Album leaf; ink and color on paper
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Wang Meng (Chinese, c. 1308–1385) - artist
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measurements: Painting: 39.8 x 56.9 cm (15 11/16 x 22 3/8 in.); Overall: 67.6 x 71.4 cm (26 5/8 x 28 1/8 in.)
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inscription: Artist's inscription, signature, and seal:
Many years and months passed by the locked gate/
Behind which the scholar has been immersed in writing his books;/
While the pine trees he had planted/
Have all grown up with old dragon scales./
The Yellow Crane Mountain Woodcutter [Huang-ho-shan-ch'iao] painted this for Chen-su [the hao of Ts'ao Chih-po]. [seal] Wang Meng yin.
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inscription: 2 additional seals: 1 of Ts'ao Chih-po (1271–1355); 1 unidentified.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368)
opening date: 1968-10-02T04:00:00
Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-November 24, 1968).
title: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting
opening date: 1981-02-11T05:00:00
Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981).
title: Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions
opening date: 1994-10-18T04:00:00
Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994).
title: China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00
China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'The Fragrance of Ink: Chinese and Japanese Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. A. Dean Perry. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 19-August 3, 1997).', 'opening_date': '1997-04-19T04:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
Mr. A. Dean and Mrs. Helen Wade Greene Perry [1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1964–1997
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1997–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Bian, Yongyu [Pien Yung-yu 卞永譽]. Shi gu tang shu hua hui kao 式古堂书画汇考. 1682
page number: ch. 4, p. 48(a)
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Sullivan, Michael. Chinese and Japanese Art. New York: Grolier, 1965.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 73, color pl. p. 179
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Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968.
page number: cat. no. 257
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Lee, Sherman E. "The Water and the Moon in Chinese and Modern Painting." Art international, vol. 14 (1970), no. 1, pp. 47–59.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 58, fig. 33
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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: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 111, pp. 136–137
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Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku [中國繪畫總合圖錄= Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings], 第1卷. アメリカ·カナダ篇[= vol. 1 American and Canadian collections]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 1982.
page number: #A23-006, p. I-287
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Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.
page number: Mentioned: p. 125
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