Two Poems for Sung Lo

Original Language Title贈宋犖行書詩二首

Artist Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 (Chinese, 1620 - 1691)

Datesecond half 17th century

MediumFan-shaped calligraphy mounted on panel; ink on gold paper

DimensionsMat: 15 × 26 3/4 inches (38.1 × 67.95 cm)
Framed: 15 1/4 × 27 1/4 inches (38.74 × 69.22 cm)

Credit LineGift of Marc and Elizabeth Wilson

Object numberF96-44/3

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionFolded fan mounted as an album leaf. Currently surrounded by matte board in a horizontal frame. Calligraphy in ink on gold paper. There are twenty-one lines of calligraphy including the signature. In addition there are three seals, two to the far left of the calligraphy and one to the far right stamped over the first character of the poem.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Chinese Calligraphy, Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 25 – November 7, 1971; Nelson Gallery – Atkins Museum, Kansas City, January 6 – February 6, 1972; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 14 – May 7, 1972, no. 79.

Flowers to Frost: Four Seasons in East Asian Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, July 18, 2015 - July 17, 2016.

Gallery Label

“Gentle breezes brush away the heat in my little studio.” On a hot summer day, Liang Qingbiao composed and inked the poem on this folding fan. Calligraphy in East Asia is regarded as a fine art equal or superior in status to painting. Liang was the most highly regarded collector and connoisseur of Chinese art in the 1600s. He created this fan as an elegant gift for his associate, Song Luo, a high official who shared his appreciation of art.

Provenance

With Laurence Sickman in 1971

Marc and Elizabeth Wilson;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1996.

Published References

Tseng Yu-ho Ecke, Chinese Calligraphy (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971), unpaged, no. 79.

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