Birds and Cherry Blossoms
Artist
Qi Baishi
(Chinese, 1864 - 1957)
Datelate 19th-mid-20th century
MediumHanging scroll; ink and color on silk
DimensionsOverall: 46 1/2 × 22 3/4 inches (118.11 × 57.79 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Massey Holmes
Object number40-21
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DescriptionFour magpies on a rock under a flowering cherry branch. Poem at the top.Exhibition HistoryModern Oriental Art: Chinese Paintings and Japanese Prints, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia. April 4-May 2, 1982.
Ethel B. Holmes (1879-1964);
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1940.
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