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Fisherman's Flute Heard Over the Lake
Fisherman's Flute Heard Over the Lake

Fisherman's Flute Heard Over the Lake

Artist Qiu Ying 仇英 (Chinese, 1494 - 1552)
Dateca. 1547
MediumHanging scroll; ink and color on paper
DimensionsImage: 62 7/8 × 33 1/8 inches (159.7 × 84.14 cm)
Mount: 110 1/2 × 35 inches (280.67 × 88.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of John M. Crawford Jr. in honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Object numberF82-34
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

The John M. Crawford Jr. Collection: Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy," Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 12, 1984-February, 1985.

A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 14 October–6 December 1987.

Chinese Ming Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, May 12 – August 29, 1993.  

The Nature of Looking: Chinese Art, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, January 16 – April 18, 1999.

Ming Paintings through the Eyes of Connoisseurs, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, January 20 – March 4, 2001.  

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.

Provenance

John M. Crawford Jr.;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1982.

Published References

Laurence Sickman, Ed., Chinese Calligraphy and Painting in the Collection of John M. Crawford, Jr. (New York: 1962), no. 64, 141-142, pl. 40, and detail.

Archives of Asian Art, Asia Society, vol. XXVII (1984), 119, fig. 27.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Calendar of Events, (Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, January 1986), 2, cover illustration (detail).

Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 82-83.

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), 326.

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), 360, fig. 237.

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