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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies 晴秋涉櫂圖
    Lu Zhi 陸治. Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies 晴秋涉櫂圖, Ming dynasty (1368–1644); c. 1545. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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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

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