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"tombstone": "Leaf 1: Gazing at the Waterfall in the Shade of Pines (\u677e\u9670\u89c0\u7011), 1962. Fu Baoshi (Chinese, 1904\u20131965). Fan painting mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on paper; overall: 21 x 55.5 cm (8 1/4 x 21 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2008.13.1",
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"title": "Leaf 1: Gazing at the Waterfall in the Shade of Pines",
"title_in_original_language": "\u677e\u9670\u89c0\u7011",
"creation_date": "1962",
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"technique": "fan painting mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on paper",
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"department": "Chinese Art",
"collection": "ASIAN - Album leaf",
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"measurements": "Overall: 21 x 55.5 cm (8 1/4 x 21 7/8 in.)",
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"inscription": "The artist\u2019s first inscription:\n\nMy elder daughter, Yishan \u76ca\u73ca, has been staying at the Lake Tai Rehabilitation Center for about two and a half months. We haven\u2019t seen each other for more than two months. Today I am suddenly thinking of her. I am not a hero and can\u2019t be unaffected by human emotions, let alone my approaching old age! This work is painted to dispel my low spirits. Recorded by Fu Baoshi on the first day of the fifth lunar month, the renyin year [1962], in Nanjing.",
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"inscription": "The artist\u2019s second inscription:\n\nToday I sent Xiaoxiao [Fu Yishan \u5085\u76ca\u73ca] to the hospital. She is beginning to recover. After returning from the Xiling Gorge, as I picked up this painting again, I thought more about the passage of time. So I added the twisted roots and gnarled branches of the green pines, giving them a posture of endurance. Recorded on the twentieth day of the leap fourth month in the guimao year [1963] by Baoshi.",
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"id": 199339,
"title": "Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904\u20131965)",
"description": "Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904\u20131965). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 16, 2011-January 8, 2012); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (co-organizer) (January 30-April 29, 2012).",
"opening_date": "2011-10-16T00:00:00"
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"description": "Fu Baoshi's family collection, Nanjing, China",
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"footnotes": null,
"date": "1960s\u2013?",
"sortorder": 1
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{
"description": "(Han Mo Xuan Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "?\u20132008",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"date": "2008\u2013",
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"did_you_know": "Themes like gazing at waterfalls evoke the literati ideal of man in harmony with nature.",
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"description": "This set of fan paintings expresses the artist\u2019s personal life and differs from the state-commissioned works Fu painted to fulfill his social duty. Here, several of the paintings have dedicatory inscriptions to Fu\u2019s wife, Luo Shihui, and his eldest daughter, Yishan. Not only do these inscriptions offer glimpses into the artist\u2019s private life, they also reveal acutely felt emotions, especially the struggle of a loving father deeply troubled by a daughter\u2019s illness.",
"external_resources": {
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"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60480403"
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"citations": [
{
"citation": "Chung, Anita, Julia Frances Andrews, Kuiyi Shen, Tamaki Maeda, and Aida Yuen Wong. Chinese art in an age of revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965). Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 61, pp. 184\u2013196",
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},
{
"citation": "Chung, Anita. \"Emotion in Tradition.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 51, no. 6 (November/December 2011): 20\u201321.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 20\u201321",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2011-06/page/20/mode/2up"
},
{
"citation": "Chung, Anita. \"Re-emergence: New Chinese Galleries and Art Acquisitions of The Cleveland Museum of Art.\" Orientations vol 44 no. 8 (November/December 2013): 64\u201375.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 71. fig. 7",
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}
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"creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund",
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"updated_at": "2026-06-02 11:23:18.123000"
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