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Magpies and Junipers

Attributed to Wen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470 - 1559)
DateMing dynasty (1368-1644)
MediumHanging scroll; ink on paper
DimensionsImage: 21 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (53.98 × 32.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number46-47
On View
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Collections
Exhibition History

Wintry Forests, Old Trees, China Institute in America, New York.  October 25, 1972-January 27, 1973; Indianapolis Museum of Art, February 6-March 18, 1973.

Wen Cheng-Ming, University of Michigan, Museum of Art.  January 25-February 29, 1976; The Asia House Gallery, New York, April 7-June 7, 1976.

Provenance

Yamamoto Teijiro;

Michelangelo Piacentini;

Purchased from Michelangelo Piacentini through Laurence Sickman for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.

 

 

Published References

Torajiro Naito, comp. Min shitaika gafu [Paintings by the Four Great Masters of the Ming Dynasty] (Osaka, 1924), pl. 52.

Teijro Yamamoto, Chokaido shoga mokuroku [Chinese calligraphy and painting in the collection of the author] (Tokyo, 1932), ch. 3, 13.

Michael Sullivan, An Introduction to Chinese Art (Berkeley: University of California, 1961), pl. 119.

Werner Speiser, Roger Goepper and Jean Fribourg, Chinese art, vol.II (New York: Universe Books, 1964), fig. 59.

Richard Barnhart, Wintry Forests, Old Trees (New York: China Institute in America, 1973), 25, 51-52, no. 14.

Richard Edwards, The Art of Wen Cheng-ming (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 1976), 78-80, no. XVI.

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), 220-221, no. 174.

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