Fishermen's Evening Song
Mount (Overall mount): 19 3/4 inches (50.17 cm)
Mount (front silk mount (qiangeshui)): 19 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (50.17 × 17.46 cm)
Mount (back silk mount (hougeshui)): 19 3/4 × 6 3/4 inches (50.17 × 17.15 cm)
Denver Art Museum, Colorado, March, 1937.
Colorado Springs Fine arts gallery, Colorado, April, 1937.
Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, February 18-December 2, 1939.
Chinese Landscape Painting, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 4-December 26, 1954.
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. 1957.
Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections, Asia Society, New York, 1960.
Oriental art exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis, January 23-March 4, 1966.
Chinese Art, Symbols, and Images, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley [MA] College, March 19-June 4, 1967.
East Asian Landscape Painting, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-November 27, 1968.
Munich and American Realism in the 19th Century, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 1978. Traveled to Cincinnati Art Museum and Milwaukee Art Center.
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. 12.
Grand View: Painting, Calligraphy and Ju Ware from the Northern Sung Dynasty and Sung Dynasty Rare Books, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, December 25, 2006- March 25, 2007.
Journey through Mountains and Rivers: Chinese Landscapes Ancient and Modern, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, February 8, 2013- April 28, 2013.
Zhou Dawen (Chou Ta-wen, 1895–1971), Peiping (modern-day Beijing), China, 1932-1933 [1];
With Dr. Otto Burchard, Peiping, by October 18, 1933 [2];
Purchased from Burchard, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] According to a seal on the outside scroll. Zhou Dawen was the mayor of Peking, 1931-1933.
[2] Sickman's purchase record, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office files, box 1a, Art Invoices/Vouchers 1934.
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The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 117, fig. 18.
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), 141.
Zheng Zhenduo. Weida de yishu chuantong tulu (The great heritage of Chinese Art) vol. I (Shanghai: 1951-1952), I: pls. 2, 3, 4.
Judith Burling & Arthur Hart Burling, Chinese Art (New York: Studio publications in association with Crowell, 1953), 106.
Laurence Sickman, and Alexander Soper, The Art and Architecture of China, The Pelican History of Art, ed. Nikolaus Pevsner, (Harmondsworth, 1956), 106, pl. 85.
Osvald Sirén, Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles (New York: The Ronald Press Co., 1956-1958) II: 207,208; III: pl. 158.
Peter Swann, Chinese Painting (New York: 1958), 62-64.
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Max Loehr, Chinese Art: Symbols and Images, Exh. cat: Jewett Art center, (Wellesley, Massachusetts: 1967), 39-41, no. 21.
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Marc F. Wilson, “ The Chinese Painter and his Vision, Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973):226-230, fig. 2.
Richard M. Barnhart, Yoshitaka Iriya, and Yujiro Nakada, To Gen, Kyonen ( Tung Yuan, Chu-jan) Bunjinga suihen ( Essence of Chinese and Japanese Literati paintings), vol. II ( Tokyo: 1977), 36-37, pl. 28.
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