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Winter Mountains

Original Language TitleHsueh-shan
CultureChinese
Datelate 11th-early 12th century
MediumHanging scroll; ink on silk with ivory roller
DimensionsImage: 57 7/8 × 36 3/8 inches (147 × 92.39 cm)
Overall (mount): 109 1/2 × 44 1/2 inches (278.13 × 113.03 cm)
Mount (Roller width): 47 3/4 inches (121.29 cm)
Credit LineGift of John M. Crawford Jr. in honor of Laurence Sickman
Object number79-9
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Collection of John M. Crawford Jr., Sickman ed. No. 6., Pierpoint Morgan Library , New York, 1962.

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, November 7,1980- January 4,1981;The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 7, 1981- April 5,1981;The Asia Society, December 3, 1981- February 28, 1982; Tokyo National Museum, October 4, 1982- November 17, 1982, no. 13.

Landscapes East | Landscapes West: Representing Nature from Mount Fuji to Canyon de Chelly The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, August 27, 2011- February 26, 2012.

Journey through Mountains and Rivers: Chinese Landscapes Ancient and Modern, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 8- April 28, 2013.

Provenance

Gift of John M. Crawford Jr. in honor of Laurence Sickman;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1979.

Published References

Collection of John M. Crawford Jr., Sickman ed. No. 6, Pierpoint Morgan Library (New York: 1962), 57-59.

Susan Bush, “Clearing after snow in the Min Mountains”, and Chin Landscape Painting (London: Oriental magazine, 1965), 167,169, fig. 9.

Richard M. Barnhart, Yoshitaka Iriya, Yujiro Nakada, To Gen, Kyonen [ Tung Yuan; Chu-jan], Bunjinga suihen [ Essence of Chinese and Japanese literati painting], vol. II ( Tokyo: 1977), 34, 136, pl. 26.

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), 24-25, no. 13, color plate III.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993),317.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 346. Fig. 194.

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