The Jade Field

Original Language TitleYu-t'ien t'u

Original Language Title明陸治玉田圖

Artist Lu Zhi (Chinese, 1496 - 1576)

Date1549

MediumHandscroll; ink and color on paper

DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 53 9/16 inches (24.13 × 136.05 cm)
Mount: 12 × 167 3/4 inches (30.48 × 426.09 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number50-68

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Ming exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, April-June 1952.

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin (OH) College. March-April 1954.

Chinese Landscape Painting, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 4-December 26, 1954.

Ming Exhibition, Arts Council of Great Britain, November 15-December 14, 1957.

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

Friends of Wen Cheng-ming: A View from the Crawford Collection, Seattle Art Museum, July 24-September 14, 1975.

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. 181.

Literati Vision: Late Wu School Painting and Calligraphy, Memphis [TN] Brooks Museum of Art, September 15-October 28, 1984; Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX, December 2, 1984-January 27, 1985.

Sacred Mountains in Chinese Art, Krannert Art Museum, November 9-December 16, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 25-March 31, 1991. No. 69.

Chinese Ming Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, May 12 – August 29, 1993.

Ming Paintings through the Eyes of Connoisseurs, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, January 20 – March 4, 2001.

La voie du Tao, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France, March 29- July 5, 2010. No. 63.

The Sacred Tripod: Buddhism, Confucianism & Daoism in Harmony, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, February 19- August 14,2011.

Painting with Words: Gentlemen Artists of the Ming Dynasty, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, April 16 – July 24, 2016.

Gallery Label

In Lu Zhi’s landscape, two tiny figures peer curiously into a grotto. In Daoist scriptures, a grotto is known as the mystic heaven, where practitioners create an elixir of immortality. Lu reportedly depicted this Daoist paradise to honor a physician nicknamed Jade Field, who may have been a devoted Daoist.

Provenance

Jean-Pierre Dubosc;

Purchased from Jean-Pierre Dubosc by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1950.

Published References

Jean-Pierre Dubosc, Great Chinese Painters of the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties... a loan exhibition in the Wildenstien galleries, Exh. Cat., (New York: March 11-April 2, 1949), 28-31, no. 24.

S. Wilkinson, “Lu Chih’s Views on Landscape” Oriental Art N.S. vol. XV (1969), 31-33, fig. 7. No. 1.

Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol. V (New York: Chinese Art Society of America, 1951), 75, fig. 16.

The Arts of the Ming Dynasty (exhibition catalogue) (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, April 18- June1, 1952), 12, no. 30.

Sherman E. Lee, Chinese Landscape Painting (exhibition catalogue, The Cleveland Museum of Art) (Cleveland: 1954), 87-89, 151, no. 60. 2^nd ed. Revised. (Cleveland and New York: 1962) 80-81, no. 61.

Bernard S. Myers, ed., Encyclopedia of painting (New York: 1955), 104, no. 35.

Sherman E. Lee, “Some Problems in Ming and Ch’ing Landscape Paintings” Ars Orientalis, Vol. II (1957), pl. 9, fig. 14.

Harry Garner, Arts of the Ming Dynasty, Arts Council of Great Britain and Oriental Ceramic Society, exhibition Catalogue (London: Nov. 15- Dec. 14, 1957), no. 22, pl. 14.

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), 67-68.

Sherman E. Lee, A History of Far Eastern Art (New York: 1964), 437, fig. 579.

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), 231-233, no. 181. (repro.)

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), 326.

Archives of Asian Art, vol. 39 (1986), 36-37, fig. 8.

Alice R.M. Hyland, Literati Vision: Late Wu School Painting and Calligraphy, (Memphis, Tennessee: Brooks Museum of Art, 1984).

Kiyohiko Munakata, Sacred Mountains in Chinese Art, Krannert Art Museum (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 142-143, no. 69.

Catherine Delacour, La voie du Tao, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (Paris, France: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2010). 258-259, no. 63.

Check catalog

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), 362, fig. 241.

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