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Landscape

Photo: Paul Macapia

Landscape

Guan Huai

Chinese, active late 18th century

The poet Gary Snyder once described how, during a visit to the Seattle Art Museum in the early 1940s, he was mesmerized by a Chinese landscape painting, which reminded him of the Cascades. Although he could not remember which painting he saw, he thought this painting by Guan Huai would have been the kind of work that inspired his immediate response. The idealized nature represented in the painting continues to have a universal appeal, beyond geographical and cultural boundaries.

Ink and color on paper
Overall: 91 1/2 x 20 3/8in. (232.4 x 51.8cm)
Image: 33 3/4 x 14 15/16in. (85.7 x 37.9cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
34.179
Provenance: Leon Ellis
Photo: Paul Macapia
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective, Dec. 22, 2007 - July 26, 2009.

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