Farewell Landscape for Mr. Wuweng

1689

Shitao

Chinese, 1642 - 1707

Amidst the dense composition of dotted vegetation and trees, a river flows by two pavilions where a gentleman gazes out on the horizon. Echoing the poem on the upper left, the subdued tone of the painting anticipates rain. The restless ink dots and layering of curvilinear contours are characteristic of Shitao's later works.

Handscroll; ink on paper

Overall: 12 3/16 x 399 7/16 in. (31 x 1014.5 cm)

Image: 10 7/8 x 107 13/16in. (27.6 x 273.8cm)

Gift of Karen Wang and partial purchase with the Trubner Asian Purchase Fund and the Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund

97.81

Provenance: Song Zhishan 宋芝山 (1748-after 1819); Ye Menglong葉夢龍 (1775–1832); Mr. and Mrs. Liang Junqing (1904-?) 梁俊青and Wu Manqing吳曼青 (b. 1904-?); Nan-ping Wong 王南屏 (1924-85); Karen Wang and Laura Wang

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Not currently on view

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Exhibition HistoryYale University Art Gallery, April 9, 1993 – July 31, 1994; University of Michigan Museum of Art, September 10 – November 19, 1994; Art Gallery, Chinese University, Hong Kong, December 16, 1994 – February 25, 1995; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, April 9 – June 18, 1995. The JadeStudio: Masterpieces of Ming and Qing painting and calligraphy from the Wong Nan-p'ing collection.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Hero/Antihero, Dec. 21, 2002 - Aug. 17, 2003.

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

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Luminous: The Art of Asia, Oct. 13, 2011 – Jan. 8, 2012.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Terratopia: The Chinese Landscape in Painting and Film, July 2, 2016 - Feb. 26, 2017.

Published ReferencesBarnhart, Richard, “The Jade Studio,” Orientations (Nov. 1994): 56-64, fig. 1.

Barnhart, Richard M. The Jade Studio: Masterpieces of Ming and Qing painting and calligraphy from the Wong Nan-ping collection. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Art Gallery. 1994: 35, cat. # 48.

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Farewell Landscape for Mr. Wuweng

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