Old Cypress and Rock
Chinese Great Painters of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Wildenstein & Co., New York, February-May 1949. (Organized by the Asia Institute)
Great Chinese Painters of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Rome, Italy, April-June 1950.
Ming exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, April-June 1952.
Chinese Landscape Painting, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 4-December 26, 1954.
Chinese Art, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, January 8-26, 1962.
Oriental art exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis, January 23-March 4, 1966.
Chinese Art, Symbols, and Images, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley [MA] College, March 19-June 4, 1967.
Wintry Forests, Old Trees, China Institute in America, New York, October 25, 1972-January 27, 1973; Indianapolis Museum of Art, February 6-March 18, 1973.
Friends of Wen Cheng-ming: A View from the Crawford Collection, Seattle Art Museum, July 24-September 14, 1975.
Wen Cheng-Ming, University of Michigan, Museum of Art, January 25-February 29, 1976; The Asia House Gallery, New York, April 7-June 7, 1976.
Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Nelson-Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, November 7, 1980 – January 4, 1981; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 7 – April 5, 1981; The Asia Society, December 3, 1981 – February 28, 1982; Tokyo National Museum, October 4 – November 17, 1982, no. 175.
Literati Vision: Late Wu School Painting and Calligraphy, Memphis [TN] Brooks Museum of Art, September 15-October 28, 1984; Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX, December 2, 1984-January 27, 1985.
Ming Paintings through the Eyes of Connoisseurs, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, January 20, 2001- March 4, 2001.
Senses and Sensibilities in Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Missouri, December 14,2008- February 15, 2009.
Jean-Pierre Dubosc;
Purchased from Jean-Pierre Dubosc through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.
Jean-Pierre Dubosc, Great Chinese Painters of the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties. Exh. Cat.: Wildenstien Galleries (New York: March 11 – April 2, 1949), 22, 26, no. 16.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949),146.
Alberto Giuganino and Jean-Pierre Dubosc, Mostra di Pitture Cinesi dell Dinastie Ming e Chi’ng. Exh. cat.: Palazzo Brancaccio (Rome: 1950), 49-50, no. 13, pl.1.
Jean-Pierre Dubosc, “A New Approach to Chinese Painting”, Oriental Art, vol. III, no. 2. (1950), 52, fig.2.
Oriental Art, vol.III, no. 2 (1950), 52, fig. 2.
The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, Exh. Cat.: Grigaut, P. Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit: 1952), 12, no. 26.
Sherman E. Lee, Chinese Landscape painting, Exh. Cat: Cleveland museum of Art (Cleveland: 1954) no. 56. Pp. 82, 84,150-151. 2nd ed., rev. Cleveland and New York, 1962.
Tseng Yu-ho, “ The ‘Seven Junipers’ of Wen Cheng-ming”, Archives of the Chinese Art society of America, vol. VIII ( New York: 1954), 25, fig. 2.
Bernard S. Myers, Ed., Encyclopedia of Painting, (New York: 1955), 108.
Rene Grousset, Chinese Art and Culture (New York: 1959), pl. 55.
Rene Huyge, ed., L’Art et l’homme, vol. II (Paris: 1957-1961), 288, pl. 826.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959),203.
Albert E., Elsen, Purposes of Art (New York: 1962), 37.
Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time, vol. IV (New York: 1962), IV: pl. 902.
Chinese Art (Smith College of Museum of Art, 1962), no. 7.
Max Loehr, Chinese Art: Symbols and Images (Jewetts Arts Center, Wellesley), 57-59, no. 32.
Richard Barnhart, Wintry Forests, Old Trees (exhibition catalogue, China House Gallery) (Oct. 26, 1972 – Jan. 28, 1973) (New York: China institute of America, 1972), 27, 53-54, no. 15.
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), 65.
Richard Edwards, The Art of Wen Cheng-ming (1470-1559) (exhibition catalogue, The University of Michigan Museum of Art), no. XLVII (Ann Arbor, 1976), 166-168.
James Cahill, Parting at the Shores: Chinese Painting of The Early and Middle Ming Dynasty, 1368-1580 (New York, Tokyo: 1978), 231, pl. 118.
Michael Sullivan, Symbols of Eternity: The Art of Landscape Painting in China, (Stanford: 1979), 126, fig. 74.
William Watson, L’Art de L’Ancienne Chine, Editions d’ Art Lucien mazenod, (Paris: 1979), 333, pl. 149; 450, no. 534.
Laurence Sickman, and Alexander Soper, The Art and Architecture of China, The Pelican History of Art, ed. Nikolaus Pevsner, (Harmondsworth, 1956) 3rd. Ed., 1968, pl. 136; paperback ed., 1971, no. 221.
Connoisseur magazine, vol. 181, 282, no. 730(Dec. 1972), pl. 7.
Edmund Capon, Chinese Painting, (Oxford: Phaidon Giant Art Paperbacks, 1979), 35.
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), 220-222, no. 175.
Alice R.M. Hyland, Literati Vision: Late Wu School Painting and Calligraphy, (Memphis, Tennessee: Brooks Museum of Art, 1984).
Oriental Art magazine, #2 summer 1992.
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), 327.
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). 360, fig. 236.
Craig Clunas, “Reading Wen Zhengming: metaphor and Chinese Painting”, Word & Image (London: Taylor & Francis, 2009): 96- 102, fig. 1.
