Landscape in the Manner of Dong Yuan
Mount: 12 1/2 × 380 inches (31.75 × 965.2 cm)
Chinese Landscape Painting, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 4-December 26, 1954.
Kung Hsien and the Nanking School: some Chinese paintings of the seventeenth century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 24-April 22, 1955, no. 7.
Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October 28 – December 1, 1957, no. 18y.
The Eccentric Painters of China, Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White Museum, Ithaca, NY, January 21-March 12, 1965.
Oriental art exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis. January 23-March 4, 1966.
Kung Hsien: Theorist and Technician in Painting, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, May 1, 1969 - July 15, 1969, no. 6.
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 11 – March 29, 1982, no. 217.
Emperors, Scholars and Temples: Tastemakers of China’s Ming and Qing Dynasties, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, January, 2017 – July 9, 2017.
Luo Zhenyu (1866-1940) [1];
Yamamoto Teijiro (1870-1937), by 1937 [2];
With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by 1948 [3];
Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.
NOTES:
[1] Luo Zhenyu was a scholar of languages and inscriptions, as well as an avid collector.
[2] Yamamoto Teijiro was a Japanese politician, businessman and collector, whose remaining collection later made up the core of the Chokaido Museum in Japan.
[3] 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.
Yamamoto Teijiro, comp., Chokaido shoga mokuroku [Chinese calligraphy and painting in the collection of Yamamoto Teijiro], (Tokyo: 1932), ch. 5, 78-79.
Sherman E. Lee, Chinese Landscape Painting (The Cleveland Museum of Art: 1954), 126, 156, no. 100. (repro.).
Aschwin Lippe (1914-1988), Kung Hsien and the Nanking School: some Chinese paintings of the seventeenth century [a loan exhibition], (New York : Chinese Art Society of America, 1955), 9, no. 7, pl. 3. (repro.).
Aschwin Lippe (1914-1988), “Kung Hsien and the Nanking School” Oriental Art, n.s. vol. II (1956), 21-29, pt. 1, 23, pl. 1. (repro.).
Grace Morley, Art in Asia and the West (San Francisco Museum of Art: 1957), 24, no. 18y. (repro.).
Henry Trubner, “Chinese Landscape Painting” Vol. III, no. 1, Oriental Art (Spring,1957), 17, pl. 3. (repro.).
James Cahill, Chinese Painting (Skira: 1960), 174. (repro.).
Shirley Black, Chapters from a Floating Life (London and New York: 1960), pl. 2, 4, 7. (repro.).
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Martie Young, The Eccentric Painters of China (Ithaca, NY: Andrew Dickson White Museum1965), 19, no. 24. (repro.).
Laurence Sickman and Alexander Soper, The Art and Architecture of China. Series: The Pelican History of Art, (Pevsner, Harmondsworth: 1956, 1960, 1968), 196, pl. 148; paperback ed., 1971, 350. (repro.).
Marc F. Wilson, Kung Hsien: Theorist and Technician in Painting. The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 9. (Kansas City, Missouri: 1969), Cat. 6. (repro.).
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), 70. (repro.).
Akiyama Terukazu, et al, ed., Chugoku bijutsu [Chinese art in Western collections]. Kaiga [paintings]: vol. II, Suzuki Kei and Tosa Teisuke, ed. (Tokyo: 1973), 233-36, pl. 47. (repro.).
William Watson, L’Art de L’Ancienne China. Editions d’Art Lucien Mazenod (Paris: 1979), 454, no. 552. (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), 285-288, no. 217. (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), 329. (repro.).
Mitchell, Stephen, tr. Tao Te Ching: Lao Tzu. London: Frances Lincoln, 1999. (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), 371, no. 272. (repro.).
