Mountains and Mist-Filled Valleys
Mount: 14 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches (36.2 x 54.61 cm)
East Asian Landscape Painting, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-November 27, 1968.
The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in 17th-Century Chinese Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, February 26-April 22, 1979.
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. 214D.
The Life of a Patron: Zhou Lianggong and the Painters of Seventeenth-Century China, China Institute Gallery, October 19 – December 21, 1996.
Tides of Chaos, Fervor Within: Chinese Painters of the 17th Century Respond to Dynastic Upheaval, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, September 23, 2004- February 2, 2008.
Masterpieces of Chinese Painting, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, October 26, 2013- January 19, 2014, no. 70.
Kozo Harada;
Purchased from Kozo Harada by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1960.
Torajiro Naito, Shincho shogafu [Painting and calligraphy of the Ch’ing dynasty] (Osaka: 1916), pl 27.
Kyo Hansen sansui (cho) [Landscape album by Kung Hsien] (Kyoto: 1919), collotype reproduction.
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