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Cloudy Peaks

Original Language TitleYun-feng t'u
Artist Gong Xian (Chinese, 1619 - 1689)
Date1674
MediumHandscroll; ink on paper
DimensionsImage: 6 3/8 × 324 inches (16.19 × 822.96 cm)
Mount: 8 1/2 × 354 1/2 inches (21.59 × 900.43 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number68-29
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Kung Hsien, The Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art, 1969, no. 9.

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. 215.

The Century of Tung Ch'i-Ch'ang, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, April 19-June 14, 1992; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 19-September 20, 1992; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 23, 1992-January 10, 1993, no. 143.

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

Landscapes East | Landscapes West: Representing Nature from Mount Fuji to Canyon de Chelly, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 27, 2011– February 26, 2012.

Provenance

Lawrence Chan;

Evangeline Chan;

Purchased from Evangeline Chan by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1968.

Published References

Marc F. Wilson, “Kung Hsien: Theorist and Technician in Painting”, Nelson- Atkins Museum Bulletin, IV (May-July, 1969), No. 9, (Kansas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1969), 30-31.

H. Hartman, “Report from America” Oriental Art, XC, no. 4 (1969), 342-343, fig. 1-2.

Archives of Asian Art, vol. XXIII, (New York: 1969-1970), 68, fig. 34. 

Terukazu Akiyama, et al, eds, Chugoku bijutsu [Chinese art in Western collections] vol. II (Tokyo: 1973), 233-236, pl. 44-45.

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), 70.

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):237-238, fig 11.

Edmund Capon, Chinese Painting (Oxford: Phaidon Giant Art paperbacks, 1979), 50.

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), 282-284, no.215.

 James Cahill, The compelling image: nature and style in seventeenth century Chinese Painting (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982), 172-          175.

Wai-kam Ho, et al. The Century of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang 1155-1636, (Kansas City: The Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art, 1992), vol. I 368-373; vol. II, 143.

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), 370, fig. 266.

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