Gazing at a Waterfall
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Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, November 7,1980- January 4,1981;The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 7, 1981- April 5,1981;The Asia Society, December 3, 1981- February 28, 1982; Tokyo National Museum, October 4, 1982- November 17, 1982. No. 30.
Senses and Sensibilities in Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, February 14, 2008- August 24, 2008.
Possibly Abel William Bahr (1877-1959), Weybridge, England; Montreal, Canada; and Ridgefield, CT, by 1959 [1];
With Robert H. Ellsworth (1929-2014), New York, by February 1970;
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1970.
NOTES:
[1] In a letter to Robert H. Ellsworth dated February 3, 1970, thanking him for his gift of the painting to the Nelson-Atkins, Laurence Sickman, Director, wrote: “It will not only be an addition of merit, but also a memento of a very great collector, A. W. Bahr.” It is unclear what Sickman meant by this, but it is possible he knew the painting had once been in the Bahr collection. Research to confirm this possibility is currently ongoing.
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), 50, no. 30.
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), 316.
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), 342.
