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Mountain Peak with Gnarled Pines, Where Cranes are Flying to Nest
Mountain Peak with Gnarled Pines, Where Cranes are Flying to Nest

Mountain Peak with Gnarled Pines, Where Cranes are Flying to Nest

Series TitleAlbum of Landscape Paintings 山水冊
Artist Xiang Shengmo 項聖謨 (Chinese, 1597 - 1658)
Date17th century
MediumAlbum leaf; ink and watercolor on paper with paper mount
DimensionsImage: 10 15/16 x 9 5/8 inches (27.78 x 24.45 cm)
Mount: 13 1/16 x 11 1/2 inches (33.18 x 29.21 cm)
Credit LinePurchased with funds from family and friends donated in memory of Thomas Earl Price and through the Oriental Deaccessioning Fund
Object numberF84-55/8
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Kernels of Energy, Bones of the Earth: The Rock in Chinese Art, China House Gallery, New York, October 23, 1985-January 29, 1986, no. 41.

Provenance

Mr. Kwan S. Wong (The Eccentric Studio), Hong Kong;

Purchased from Mr. Kwan S. Wong (The Eccentric Stuido) by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1984.

Published References

John Hay, Kernels of Energy, Bones of Earth, the Rock in Chinese Art. (New York: China House Gallery, 1985), pl.1, no. 41.

John Hay, “The Rock and Chinese Art” Orientations (Dec 1985), 28-29, fig. 4.

“New Acquisition” Archives of Asian Art, XXXX (1986), 81.

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