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Five Dragons (Wu-lung t'u)

Attributed to Chen Rong (Chinese, ca. 1200 - 1266)
DateSouthern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
MediumHandscroll; ink on paper
DimensionsOverall: 13 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (34.29 × 59.69 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number48-15
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. 1961.

The Art of Southern Sung China, Asia House Gallery, New York, February 15-April 15, 1962.

Oriental art exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis. January 23-March 4, 1966.

 The Dragon in Chinese Art, China Institute in America, New York, March 22-May 28, 1972.

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. 62.

Senses and Sensibilities in Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, December 14, 2008- February 15, 2009.

Provenance

With C. T. Loo & Co., Inc., New York, stock card no. LP-7/2, by January 1947-1948 [1];

Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.

NOTES:

[1] C. T. Loo/Frank Caro archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy of stock card in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 143.

Osvald Siren, Chinese Paintings: Leading Masters and Principles, 7 vols. (New York: 1956-1958), vol. II, 150-151; vol. II, pl. 360.

James Cahill, The Art of Southern Sung China, exh. cat., (New York: Asia House Gallery, 1962) 63-65, no. 29

Atlas magazine, Sept. 1963, cover.

Hugo Munsterberg, Dragons in Chinese Art, (New York: China House Gallery) [March 23-May 28] 1972, 32, no. 28.

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), 58.

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), 80-82, no. 62.

John Blofeld, Taoist Mysteries and Magic, (Boulder, Co.: Shambhala pub., 1982).  

Alasdair Clayre, The Heart of the Dragon (London: 1984) 232-233.

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), 318, Color plate 65.

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), 343, fig. 186.

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