Stream and Rocks
Chinesische Malerei, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, 1949/50, no. 16.
Traces of the Brush: Studies in Chinese Calligraphy, Yale University Art Gallery, April 6-June 27, 1977; University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, October 11-December 11, 1977.
Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Nelson-Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, November 7, 1980 – January 4, 1981; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 11 – March 29, 1982, no. 182.
Sacred Mountains in Chinese Art, Krannert Art Museum, November 9-December 16, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 25-March 31, 1991.
The Art of Ink Rubbings: Impressions of Chinese Culture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 20, 2024–February 2, 2025, no cat.
Lu Zhi painted the blue-and-green landscape for his friend Lu Shen, represented as a red-robed gentleman meditating in a tranquil setting. Lu Shen wrote his artist’s name, Xishi (stream and rocks), in two large characters on the frontispiece (the section of the scroll that precedes the painting). Their mentor, Wen Zhengming, added an inscription on the colophon (the section after the painting). Wen praises the painting and the lofty-minded Lu Shen, who devoted himself to nature rather than seeking fame and fortune. The calligraphy of both inscriptions is written in the squared-off style of clerical script.
Xiang Yuanbian, 1525-1590;
Viktoria von Winterfeldt-Contag (1906–1973);
By decent to her daughter, Beatrix Freifrau Riedesel Zu Eisenbach;
Purchased from Beatrix Freifrau Riedesel Zu Eisenbach by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1975.
Wang Keyu, Shanhuwang hualu, Preface dated 1643 (Reprinted, Taipei: Guoxue chipen congshu, 1958), ch. 17, 1156-57.
Victoria Contag, Chinesische Malerei (Hamburg, Germany: Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, 1949), 37, no. 16.
Shen C.Y. Shen, Traces of the Brush: Studies in Chinese Calligraphy (Yale University Art Gallery: 1977), 273-274, no. 53a, ill. P. 65; no. 53b, ill. P. 74. (repro.).
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), 233-234, no. 182. (repro.).
