Winter Landscape

Inscriptions

Artist's Inscription: Myriad mountains in flying snow, painted by Shuxian, Xie Shichen. Artist's seal; Xie Sizhong shi, intaglio Qishisiweng(Seventy four years old man), intaglio Yuchi title by Luo Zhenyu (1866-1940) Collector's seal: "Hongdou shanzhuang" 4 colophons: Zhu Xuan, (17th) Luo Zhenyu, (1918) Nagao Ko (1919) Cha Honghu (1919)

Exhibition history

University of Chicago, Hsieh Shih-ch'en: a Ming Dynasty Painter Reinterprets the Past. David and Alfred Smart Gallery, January 12-February 26, 1978 Detroit Institute of Arts, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1952

Publications

Paul L. Grigaut, E.P. Richardson, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty (The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952), No. 28, p. 13. Charles Fabens Kelley, "Chinese Painting," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, (AIC, 1951(11/4)). vol. 45, no. 4, figs. 5-6.

Quick Overview

Artist: Xie Shichen / Chinese, 1487-after 1567
Date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Medium: Handscroll; ink with touches of color on paper
Dimensions: 27.7 × 537.3 cm (10 7/8 × 211 1/2 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: handscroll
Style: Chinese (culture or style)
Place: China
Department: Arts of Asia
Credit line: Gift of the Orientals
Accession no.: 1950.1151

Provenance

Laurence Sickman, K.C.Mo.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.