Scenic Views of Rivers and Mountains in the Style of Huang Gongwang
Chinese Paintings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October-December 1948.
Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Nelson-Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, November 7, 1980 – January 4, 1981; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 11 – March 29, 1981, no. 247.
Flowers to Frost: Four Seasons in East Asian Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, January, 5 – July 17, 2016.
Luo Zhenyu (1866-1940) [1];
Yamamoto Teijiro (1870-1937), by 1937 [2];
With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by February 1946 [3];
Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.
NOTES:
[1] Luo Zhenyu was a scholar of languages and inscriptions, as well as an avid collector.
[2] Accession documentation, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. Yamamoto Teijoro was a Japanese politician, businessman and collector, whose remaining collection later made up the core of the Chokaido Museum in Japan.
[3] Acquisition documents in the Nelson-Atkins files record that Curator of Asian Art Laurence Sickman purchased this object when he was stationed in Tokyo while serving with the U.S. Army’s Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section after World War II. Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.
Toraijiro Naito, Shincho shogafu [Painting and calligraphy of the Qing dynasty], (Osaka, 1916), painters, pl. 10. (repro.).
Yamamoto Teijiro, Chokaido shoga mokuroku [Chinese calligraphy and painting in the collection of the auther]. (Tokyo: 1932), ch.6, 98-99.
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), 334, no. 247. (repro.).
