Landscape in the Style of Ni Zan
Chinese Great Painters of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Wildenstein & Co., New York, February-May 1949. (Organized by the Asia Institute)
Great Chinese Painters of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Rome, Italy, April-June 1950.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin (OH) College. March-April 1954.
Chinese Landscape Painting, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 4-December 26, 1954.
Chinese Art, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, January 8-26, 1962.
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. 150.
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.
Chinese Ming Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, May 12 - August 29, 1993.
Senses and Sensibilities in Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Missouri, December 14,2008- February 15, 2009.
Yamamoto Teijiro (1870-1937), by 1937 [1];
With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by February 1946 [2];
Purchased from Piacentini, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.
NOTES:
[1] Accession documentation, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. Yamamoto Teijoro was a Japanese politician, businessman and collector, whose remaining collection later made up the core of the Chokaido Museum in Japan.
[2] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.
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