Hills and Streams After Rain

Original Language Title明陳淳溪山雨後

Artist Chen Chun 陳淳 (Chinese, 1483 - 1544)

DateMing dynasty (1368-1644)

MediumHandscroll; ink and color on paper

DimensionsOverall: 10 3/8 × 65 3/4 inches (26.35 × 167.01 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number46-42

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin (OH) College, March-April 1954.

Chinese Landscape Painting, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 4-December 26, 1954.

Oriental art exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis, January 23-March 4, 1966.

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. 178.

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.

Landscapes East | Landscapes West: Representing Nature from Mount Fuji to Canyon de Chelly, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 27, 2011- February 26, 2012.

Gallery Label

Chen Chun combined two painting traditions in this landscape. As an ardent lover of fresh colors, Chen infused monochrome Mi-style with the blue and green tradition. The “Mi-style,” pioneered by Mi Fu (1051–1107), is an ink method used to convey a moist, atmospheric effect using horizontal wet ink brushstrokes and washes.

Provenance

Purchased through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.

Published References

Teijiro Yamamoto, comp. Chokaido shoga mokuroku (Chinese calligraphy and painting in the collection of Yamamoto Teijiro),), vol. II (Tokyo: Tanaka Keitaro, 1932), II: 66-67.

Osvald Sirén, Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles, vol. IV (New York: The Ronald Press Co., 1958), IV: 220.

Sherman E. Lee, Chinese Landscape painting, Exh. cat: Cleveland museum of Art (Cleveland: 1962), 92, pl.69.

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), 225-226, no. 178. (repro.)

Yi yuan duo ying( Gems of Chinese Fine Arts), no. 17. Special issue on Ba Da Shan Ren,(Shangahi: 1982), 30.

Alice R.M. Hyland, Literati Vision: Late Wu School Painting and Calligraphy, (Memphis, Tennessee: Brooks Museum of Art, 1984).

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), 361, fig.239.

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