Spring in the Jiangnan Region
Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Nelson-Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, November 7, 1980 – January 4, 1981; The Cleveland Museum of Art, no 252B.
Flowers to Frost: Four Seasons in East Asian Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, January, 5 – July 17, 2016.
Imperial collection, the Qing dynasty (1816 – early 20th c.);
Arthur B. Rothwell (1906-1994), New York, Panama, Dallas, TX and Houston, TX, by 1949-1962 [1];
Purchased from Rothwell by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1962.
NOTES:
[1] Arthur B. Rothwell was born in Oldham, England in 1906 and worked as an import manager for Yangtze Trading Company during his early career. He spent several years in New York as president of Oriental Fine Arts, Inc., until 1949, when he closed the gallery and moved to Panama. By 1959, he lived in Dallas, Texas, where he was involved in the oil industry with the Cheyenne Oil Corporation. Rothwell mentioned this painting to Nelson-Atkins Director Laurence Sickman in a letter dated May 11, 1961, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files, in which he indicated it had been in his collection since at least 1949.
Hu Jing, et al. comp, Shiqu baoji sanbian [Catalogue of painting and calligraphy in the imperial collection, part II], 1816. Facsimile reprint. (Taipei: 1969), 974.
Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 72. (repro.).
Wai-Kam Ho, et al., Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. (The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, c1980), 340-341, no. 252B. (repro.).
