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Temple Hidden Among Lofty Cliffs

Temple Hidden Among Lofty Cliffs

Original Language TitleCh'ung-yen ku ssu
CultureChinese
Datemid-13th century
MediumInk and color on silk
DimensionsOverall: 79 3/8 × 65 3/4 inches (201.61 × 167.01 cm)
Image: 74 × 60 1/4 inches (187.96 × 153.04 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-267
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DescriptionMountain landscape: asymmetrical composition with very high peaks at right; a temple near the summit of the central peak. In foreground, a shore surrounded by rugged rocks from which huge twisted pines bend and curve towards the river, with a single fishing boat offshore.Provenance

With Ju Ku Chai, Peiping (modern-day Beijing), China, by April 7, 1934;

Purchased from Ju Ku Chai, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

NOTES:

[1] Sickman's purchase record, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office Files, box 1a, Art Invoices/Vouchers 1934.

Published References

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), 165, no. 140.

Museum, Ed. No. 379, (Tokyo National Museum, Oct. 1982): pl. 20.

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