Twelve Views of Landscape
Mount (with colophons): 11 x 115 1/2 inches (27.94 x 293.37 cm)
Overall: 11 x 379 1/2 inches (27.94 x 963.93 cm)
Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, February 18-December 2, 1939.
Chinese Landscape Painting, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 4-December 26, 1954.
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. 58.
Tempus Fugit: Time Flies, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 15, 2000- December 31, 2000.
Sesshu - Master of Ink and Brush: 500th Anniversary Exhibition, Tokyo National Museum, April 23, 2002- May 19, 2002.
Senses and Sensibilities in Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Missouri, December 14,2008- February 15, 2009.
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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.
Owen Roberts (1875-1955), New York, by April 19, 1932 [1]; Purchased from Roberts, through Langdon Warner, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932. NOTES: [1] Letter from Owen Roberts to Langdon Warner, April 19, 1932, Harvard University Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, HUG 4872.1010, box 12, folder 15, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. Owen Roberts was a member of the U.S. Supreme Court at the time he sold this painting to the Nelson-Atkins in 1932. During World War II, he chaired the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas , better known as the Roberts Commission. From 1943 to 1946, the Commission advised the U.S. Army on the preservation of cultural property and recovery of art looted by the Nazis. Langdon Warner, the Nelson-Atkins' Advisor on Asian Art, acted as an agent for the 1932 sale and later served as a Special Consultant to the Roberts Commission during the war. lson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
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