Farewell to Lu Zhi
Chinese Paintings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October-December 1948, no. 30.
The Practice of Drawing, Worcester (MA) Art Museum, November 15, 1951-January 6, 1952.
Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October-December 1957, no. 18s.
The Arts of Man, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, October-December 1962.
Oriental art exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis, January 23-March 4, 1966.
Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Nelson-Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, November 7, 1980 – January 4, 1981; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 11 – March 29, 1982, no. 153.
Literati Vision: Late Wu School Painting and Calligraphy, Memphis [TN] Brooks Museum of Art, September 15-October 28, 1984; Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX, December 2, 1984-January 27, 1985.
Emperors, Scholars and Temples: Tastemakers of China’s Ming and Qing Dynasties, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, August 12, 2016 – January, 2017.
On a serene riverbank, Shen Zhou and his friend, Lu Zhi, bid farewell as Lu departs to serve the imperial court as a physician. To honor Lu’s service to their hometown, Shen painted this parting scene and composed a poem on the colophon at the end of the painting. In the last line, Shen refers to their mutual respect and shared passion for brushwork and poetry: “A man should treat his art with care, to cure the nation and earn the esteem of all.”
Pang Yuanji;
Tonying and Co.;
Purchased from Tonying and Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.
Pang Yuanji, Xuzhai minghualu (Shanghai: 1909), ch. 3, p. 7.
Henry S. Trubner, Chinese Paintings Lent by American Museums, Collectors, and Dealers (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1948), 22, no. 30. (repro.).
Grace Morley, Art in Asia and the West (San Francisco Museum of Art: 1957), 24, no. 18s. (repro.).
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), 184-185, no. 153. (repro.).
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), 324. (repro.).
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), 357, no. 228. (repro.).
