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Spring in the Mountains
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Spring in the Mountains

Original Language Title明 春山圖卷
Artist Unknown
Artist After Dong Qichang 董其昌 (Chinese, 1555 - 1636)
DateMing dynasty (1368-1644)
MediumHandscroll; watercolor on paper on silk
DimensionsImage: 10 3/8 × 87 1/2 inches (26.35 × 222.25 cm)
Mount: 10 3/8 × 90 inches (26.37 × 228.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number31-135/30
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DescriptionBlue and green mountain landscape in "literary man's style," with trees and hills in the foreground. With inscription by artist.Provenance
With Celestin Liu, Peking (modern-day Beijing), China, by July 1931 [1];

Purchased from Celestin Liu, through Langdon Warner (1881-1955), by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931.

NOTES:

[1] "Kansas City - Itemized Purchases in China and Japan, 1932," Harvard Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, box 15, folder 28, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
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