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Landscape after Wang Meng

Series TitleLandscapes in the Manner of Old Masters
Artist Dong Qichang 董其昌 (Chinese, 1555 - 1636)
Date1621-1624
MediumAlbum leaf; ink and color on paper
DimensionsImage: 22 x 13 3/4 inches (55.88 x 34.93 cm)
Sheet: 24 3/4 x 16 inches (62.87 x 40.64 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Hall Family Foundation and the exchange of other Trust properties
Object number86-3/3
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Exhibition History

The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang, 1555-1636 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, April 19, 1992 – June 14, 1992; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 19,1992- September 20,1992; Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 23, 1992- January 10, 1993.

Tides of Chaos, Fervor Within: Chinese Painters of the 17th Century Respond to Dynastic Upheaval The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, November 23, 2004- February 12, 2008.

Provenance

With Dong Qichang 董其昌 (1555-1636); Wang Hongxu 王鴻緒 (1645-1723); An Qi 安岐(1683-ca. 1746); Emperor Gaozong of the Qing dynasty 清高宗 (r. 1736-95); Dai Quan 戴銓 (1794-1854); Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 (1864-1949); Tan Jing 譚敬 (1911-1991); and Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (1907-2003).

Purchased from Wang Jiqian, New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1986.

Published References

Wai-Kam Ho, “Tung Chi’i-ch’ang’s new Orthodoxy and the Southern school theory”, C. Murck, ed., Artists and Traditions (Princeton: 1976), 113-129.

Hironobu Kohara, Shen Fu, Tung Ch’i-chiang, The Man and His Work (Tokyo: Nigensha, 1981), pl. 1-5, no. 17.

James Cahill, The compelling image: nature and style in seventeenth century Chinese Painting (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982), Pl. 4 [repro.].

Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 98-99, no.40.

Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 191.

“Report from America (West Coast)”, Oriental Art (Autumn, 1991): #3, 160-166, Leafe #7 ill.

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, Color plate 70.

Wai-kam Ho, The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang, 1555-1636 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, (Kansas City, Mo. : Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1992).

Tradition and Innovation: Director Marc F. Wilson and Chinese Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Orientations, Special issue for the Chinese art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. 39, no. 8 (November/December 2008): 52.

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), 367, fig. 260.

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