Enjoying Fresh Air in a Mountain Retreat
Overall (1-1/2" hanging string): 101 1/2 x 24 inches (257.81 x 60.96 cm)
Denver (Colorado) Art Museum, March 1937.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Gallery, April 1937.
Chinese Art Under the Mongols, Yale University Art Gallery, 1968-1969. Traveled to Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 1-November 24, 1968; Asia House Gallery, New York. Dallas Museum of Art (organizer).
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. 107.
Painters of the Great Ming: The Imperial Court and Zhe School, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 10-May 9, 1993; Dallas Museum of Art, June 3-August 1, 1993.
Senses and Sensibilities in Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Missouri, December 14,2008- February 15, 2009.
Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China, October 16, 2012- January 17, 2013, no.3.11.
Journey through Mountains and Rivers: Chinese Landscapes Ancient and Modern, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, February 8, 2013, April 28, 2013.
The assumed owner of this landscape painting is pictured here sitting in an open pavilion deep in the mountains surrounded by clouds, woods, and a flowing stream. Mountain retreats that rejuvenate one’s mind and spirit are a common theme in Chinese painting.
Chin Kuan Kô;
Purchased from Chin Kuan Kô through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.
Li Zuoxian李佐賢編輯, Shuhua jianying 書畫鑑影(Reflections on calligraphy and painting). Preface dated 1871; ch. 20, 17b-18a.
Laurence Sickman, and Alexander Soper, The Art and Architecture of China, The Pelican History of Art, ed. Nikolaus Pevsner, (Harmondsworth, 1956), 151, pl.114a.
Osvald Sirén, Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles (New York: The Ronald Press Co., 1956-1958), IV: 76; VI: pl. 90.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959),201.
Werner Speiser, Roger Goepper and Jean Fribourg, Chinese Art. Vol. II, Paintings, Calligraphy, Stone Rubbing, Wood Engraving, (New York: 1964), 40, color pl. 16.
Sherman E. Lee and Ho Wai-kam, Chinese Art under the Mongols The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). Exh. cat. (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968), no. 230.
Terukazu Akiyama, et al., eds. Chugoku bijutsu (Chinese art in Western collections), Vol. II, Kaiga, ed. By Kei Suzuki and Teisuke Toda, (Tokyo: 1973), II: 221, 222, pl. 16.
Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 61.
James Cahill, Parting at the Shore Chinese Paintings of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty, 1368-1580, (New York and Tokyo: 1978), 67, color pl. 3.
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), 131-2, no. 107.
Kei Suzuki, Chugoku kaiga shi: Gen (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1988),pl. 118.
Richard M. Barnhart, Painters of the Great Ming: Imperial court and the Zhe School, The Dallas Museum of Art, 1993), 41, Cat. 9.
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), 322.
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). 354, fig. 218.
Shanghai bo wu guan, Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections, Shanghai Museum, (Beijing shi: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2012), 77, no.3.11.
