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The Mood of Autumn among Streams and Mountains

The Mood of Autumn among Streams and Mountains

Original Language TitleXishan qiuyi
Artist Kuncan (Chinese, 1612 - 1673)
Date1663
MediumHanging scroll; ink and watercolor on paper
DimensionsImage: 43 × 19 3/8 inches (109.22 × 49.21 cm)
Mount: 90 × 23 inches (228.6 × 58.42 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: Nelson Gallery Foundation
Object numberF75-41
On View
Not on view
Gallery Location
  • 202
Collections
Exhibition History

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, November 7,1980- January 4,1981;The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 7, 1981- April 5,1981;The Asia Society, December 3, 1981- February 28, 1982; Tokyo National Museum, October 4, 1982- November 17, 1982, no. 232.

The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang, 1555-1636, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, April 19,1992- June 14, 1992 ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 19, 1992- September 20,1992; Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 23,1992- January 10, 1993.

Chinese Ming Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, May 2, 1993- August 29, 1993.

 Tides of Chaos, Fervor Within: Chinese Painters of the 17th Century Respond to Dynastic Upheaval, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, November 23, 2004- February 12, 2008.

Yellow Mountain: The Ever-Changing Landscape, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, May 31, 2008- August 24, 2008.

Provenance

Victoria Contag von Winterfeldt;

Purchased from Victoria Contag von Winterfeldt by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1975.

Published References

Werner Speiser and Victoria Contag, Austellung Chinesische Malerei 15,20 Jahrhundert [ Exhibition of Chinese painting of the 15th – 20century] ( exhibition catalogue, Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Dusseldorf), ( 1950), no. 98, 29, 50, pl. 12.

Victoria Contag, Zwei Meister chinesischer Landschafsmaleri [Two masters of Chinese landscape painting] Baden-Baden (1955), 89-90, pl. 26.

Victoria Contag, Chinese Masters of the Seventeenth Century, trans. Michael Bullock (Rutland and Toyo: 1970), 26-27, 49, pl. 34-34a.

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), 314, no. 232.

Wai-kam Ho, et al. The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang, 1555-1636 (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1992), vol. I, 348-349, pl. 120; vol. II, 132.

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), 328.

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), 369, fig. 265.

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