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Fighting Birds

CultureChinese
Date12th century
MediumAlbum leaf; ink and color on silk
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (23.5 × 26.67 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number49-13
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

University of Oklahoma, Museum of Art, Norman, January-March 1952.

Flower Festival, Indiana University Fine Arts Department, April 15-May 16, 1955.

Arts of China, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, October 30-December 4, 1955.

The Art of Southern Sung China, Asia House Gallery, New York, February 15-April 15, 1962.

The Arts of Man, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, October-December 1962.

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. 29.

Senses and Sensibilities in Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, December 14, 2008- February 15, 2009.

Provenance

Liang Qingbiao, 1620-1691;

Tonying and Co.;

Purchased from Tonying and Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1949.

 

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959),199.

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 54.

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), 49, no. 29.

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), 315.

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), 342, fig. 184.

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