Deer and Crane in Landscape
CultureChinese
Date16th century
MediumHanging scroll; watercolor on silk with silk mount
DimensionsImage: 74 1/2 × 39 3/8 inches (189.23 × 100.01 cm)
Mount: 120 × 44 7/8 inches (304.8 × 113.97 cm)
Mount: 120 × 44 7/8 inches (304.8 × 113.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-248
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DescriptionRed capped heron standing on a rock amidst flowers, under a pine tree. Large reclining deer in the foreground.Exhibition HistoryWichita (KS) Art Association. Inaugural exhibition. September 21-October 19, 1935.
Denver Art Museum. March 1937.
Colorado Spring Fine Arts Gallery. April 1937.
Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, 1943.
Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS. Exhibition. November 1957-January 1959.
Drury College, Springfield, MO. October 15-December 19, 1969.
Liu Li Ch’ang, Peiping;
Ju Ku Chai;
Purchased from Ju Ku Chai through Laurence Sickman for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.
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