Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001705Album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu
by Xugu
Inscriptions
Inscribed by the artist on one leaf: [Painted] in the winter of the yiwei year, the twenty-first year of the Guangxu era [November 1895 – February 1896], Xugu
Provenance
Florence Ayscough MacNair (1875-1942; born Weelock; also Florence Ayscough) and Harley Farnsworth MacNair (1891–1947), Shanghai, China, then Chicago; by descent to Harley Farnsworth MacNair, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 28, 1943.
Publications
Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings: Third Series, Vol. 1 American and Canadian Collections 1, Research Field of Art, East Asian Department, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, by University of Tokyo Press, 2013; page I-22, 23, 24, No. A 3–070.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Xugu 虛谷 (Chinese, 1823-1896)
- Date
- Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1895/96
- Medium
- Album of 25 leaves; ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- Each leaf: 30.5 × 36.3 cm (12 × 14 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Style
- Chinese (culture or style)
- Place
- China
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Gift of Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair
- Accession no.
- 1943.106.7
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