Magpies and Junipers
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.
Yamamoto Teijiro (1870-1937), by 1937 [1];
With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by February 1946 [2];
Purchased from Piacentini 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. [confirm this]
[2] Acquisition documents in the Nelson-Atkins files record that Curator of Asian Art Laurence Sickman purchased this object when he was stationed in Tokyo while serving with the U.S. Army’s Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section after World War II. 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.
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.
