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Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies 晴秋涉櫂圖
by Lu Zhi 陸治
Inscriptions
Inscribed by the artist: Beyond the sky the distant mountains seem to float like green jade. In the evening light, on my magnolia boat, I watch numberless hibiscus spread toward me in the rapid wind. I feast my eye on the cold river in autumn. Lu Zhi.
Provenance
Xiang Yuanbian (1535-1590). Walter Hochstadter (1914‒2007), New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 5, 1953.
Exhibition history
Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Landscape Painting, 1954, p. 87, cat. 61, p. 85 (ill), cat. by Sherman E. Lee. Memphis, Tenn., Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, The Literati Vision: Sixteenth Century Wu School Painting and Calligraphy, Sept. 16-Oct. 28, 1984, cat. by Alice R. M. Hyland; traveled to Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Dec. 2, 1984-Jan. 27, 1985, p. 93, cat. 19, p. 34, fig. 17.
Publications
Sherman E. Lee, Chinese Landscape Painting (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954), p. 87, cat. 61, p. 85 (ill), 2nd ed, rev. (Harper & Row, 1962), p. 80, p. 81 (ill.), as Landscape with Clear Distance. . Louise Ripple Yuhas, The Landscape Art of Lu Chih (1496-1576), (Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1979), p. 368. Louise Yuhas, “The Landscape Painting of Lu Chih (Part I)”, National Palace Museum Bulletin 20, 5-6 (November/December 1985, January/February 1986), pp. 9-10. Louise Yuhas, “Lu Chih and the Literati Tradition: Paintings in the Style of Ni Tsan”. Ars Orientalis, 13 (1982), pp. 34-5; p. 52, fig. 10. Alice R. M. Hyland, The Literati Vision: Sixteenth Century Wu School Painting and Calligraphy (Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 1984), cat. 19, p. 34, fig. 17. Elinor L. Pearlstein and James T. Ulak, Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993), p. 74 (ill.), pp. 75-76, p. 149.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lu Zhi 陸治 (Chinese, 1496-1576)
- Date
- Ming dynasty (1368–1644); c. 1545
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 105.8 × 31.1 cm (41 5/8 × 17 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Style
- Chinese (culture or style)
- Place
- China
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- W. L. Mead Fund
- Accession no.
- 1953.159
More by Lu Zhi 陸治 in museum collections
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