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Waiting for the Ferry in the Chill of Winter
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Waiting for the Ferry in the Chill of Winter

Original Language Title元 寒江待渡
CultureChinese
Dateearly 14th century
MediumAlbum leaf; ink on silk
DimensionsOverall: 8 3/4 × 9 7/8 inches (22.23 × 25.08 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number46-52
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 222
Collections
Exhibition History

Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, 1948.

University of Oklahoma, Museum of Art, Norman. January-March 1952.

Arts of China,  Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, October 30-December 4, 1955.

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

Album Leaves, China Institute in America, New York, March 25-May 30, 1970.

Yuan Dynasty Painting, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 21-October 31, 1976.

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. 100.

Gallery Label
The chilly air hovers over the leafless trees and the river. A sailor moves the ferry at full speed across a vast river toward the awaiting clients. Nestled on a high mountain, a temple with a pagoda may be the travelers’ destination.
Provenance

Tokyo art market, Japan, February 1946;

Purchased on the Tokyo art market, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.

NOTES:

[1] Acquisition documents in the Nelson-Atkins files record that Curator of Asian Art Laurence Sickman purchased this object when he was stationed in Tokyo while serving with the U.S. Army’s Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section after World War II. The vendor is not named on purchase documents, but Sickman bought other objects in Tokyo in February 1946 from Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005) and Masanari Okazaki.

Published References

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), 60.

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), 124-125, no. 100.

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), 320.

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), 350, fig. 207.

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