id:			92577
accession number:	2020.160
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.160
updated:		2025-12-28 21:24:57.213000

A Great River (Yi Tiao Dahe) (from series Repetitions), 1986. Xu Bing (Chinese, b. 1955). Woodcut print with ink on paper; image: 53.5 x 73.7 cm (21 1/16 x 29 in.); sheet: 66.7 x 91.2 cm (26 1/4 x 35 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.160

title:				A Great River (Yi Tiao Dahe) (from series Repetitions)
title in original language:	一條大河
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creation date:			1986
creation date earliest:		1981
creation date latest:		1991
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creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
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culture:	China
technique:	Woodcut print with ink on paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Xu Bing (Chinese, b. 1955)  - artist
Xu Bing is one of China’s most outstanding conceptual contemporary artists. He is internationally recognized for using Chinese characters, the written word or character and language to challenge assumptions about human society and communication. He grew up in Beijing, was initially trained in printmaking, and received his MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing in 1987. His multi-disciplinary artwork has been displayed at prestigious venues and is held in numerous collections worldwide. Xu moved to the US in 1990 where he lived for 18 years; today he lives and works in New York and Beijing.
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measurements: Image: 53.5 x 73.7 cm (21 1/16 x 29 in.); Sheet: 66.7 x 91.2 cm (26 1/4 x 35 7/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Lower margin, in graphite: 24/50; 一条大河; seal; 徐冰; Xu Bing 1987
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
	opening date:   2022-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Booklyn, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)
	date: ?–2015
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	Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2015–2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Von Spee, Clarissa. "Chinese Ceramics and Works on Paper." In <em>The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 194-229. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 224-227; Mentioned: p. 275
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