id:			166772
accession number:	2008.61
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.61
updated:		2023-08-24 00:30:04.076000

Boating Before the Rain, 1990. Yu Peng (Chinese, 1955–2014). Handscroll, ink on paper; overall: 179 x 31.5 cm (70 1/2 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Su Mei Ho and John D. Daughenbaugh 2008.61

title:				Boating Before the Rain
title in original language:	風雨歸舟
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creation date:			1990
creation date earliest:		1990
creation date latest:		1990
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creditline:			Gift of Su Mei Ho and John D. Daughenbaugh
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culture:	Taiwan
technique:	handscroll, ink on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Handscroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Yu Peng (Chinese, 1955–2014)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 179 x 31.5 cm (70 1/2 x 12 3/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Alone in this wandering world,
I struggle to sleep before the impending rain.
No more is my companion.
Where shall I go to find her voice?

Painted by Yu Peng in the spring of 1990
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	inscription:	風雨歸舟
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PROVENANCE

	Su Mei Ho and John D. Daughenbaugh, Los Angeles, CA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-2008
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2008-
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fun fact:
Yu Peng's agitated brushwork and inscribed poem evoke feelings of restlessness in a stormy atmosphere.

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wall description:
A small boat travels up the river before the rain, drifting along the winding course amid a vast expanse of mountains to reach a garden retreat, where long, zigzag walls are artfully designed for incorporating the shifting views of an exterior lotus pond. This dramatic ink landscape executed in the artist's typically bold and luxuriant style, in which he deftly manipulates solid and void. <br><br>In Taiwanese artist Yu Peng's paintings, there are often pastiche references to past styles, literati, and folk traditions alike, with no apology for mixing the "refined" with the "vulgar." Yu's art is a contemporary narrative of his own intimate experiences, his fantasies and dreams, his illusions and loss. <br><br>Viewed in the wider cultural context, the art of Yu Peng suggests not only a search for cultural roots and native identity in a rapidly changing political and social environment but also the many contradictions between past and present, island and country, rural and urban, that are so strongly felt in today's Taiwan.
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