The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Old Pine Tree
late 1530s
(Chinese, 1470–1559)
Painting: 28 x 139.3 cm (11 x 54 13/16 in.); Overall: 29.3 x 596.9 cm (11 9/16 x 235 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
Here the natural appearance of a gnarled and vine-entangled pine has been transformed into a rhythmic abstraction of brushstrokes and ink tonalities, with unifying opposites—opening and closing, rising and falling—that provide the design across the horizontal scroll. The artist's inscription reads: "The force of change beyond restraint; / The dragon's whiskers are likened to a forest of spears."- Qian Shisheng 錢士昇 [1575–1652]at least by 1736-c. 1911Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperors Qianlong, r. 1736–1795; Jiaqing, r. 1796–1820; and Xuanzong, r. 1909-11)?-1964(Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904–1988], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1964-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Mi dian zhu lin/Shi qu bao ji 秘殿珠林石渠寶笈. 2 vols. Taipei: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan [National Palace Museum], 1971. (Original text dated 1745.) Mentioned; vol. 1, p. 602Ferguson, John C 福開森. Li dai zhu lu hua mu 歷代著錄畵目. Nanjing: Chin-ling University, Zhong guo wen hua yan jiu suo 金陵大學中國文化硏究所, 1934. p. 23Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. Mentioned: VII, Lists, 263The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 264 archive.orgLee, Sherman E. “Literati and Professionals: Four Ming Painters.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 53, no. 1, 1966, pp. 2–25. Reproduced: pp. 7, 8, fig. 2 25152081The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 264 archive.orgClapp, Anne de Coursey. Wen Cheng-Ming: The Ming Artist and Antiquity. Ascona: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1975. Reproduced: pp. 75, 76, fig. 39Edwards, Richard. The Art of Wen Cheng-Ming (1470-1559). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1976. cat. no. XVIIThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 350 archive.orgHironobu Kohara 古原宏伸, Richard Edwards, and Takeo Hibino 日比野丈夫. Shin Shū, Bun Chōmei [沈周 文徴明 = Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming]. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1978. Reproduced: p. 168, pl. 61Watson, William. L'art de l'ancienne Chine. Paris: Mazenod, 1979. Reproduced: pl. 150Wilson, J. Keith. "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 8 (1990): 286-323. Reproduced: p. 308-09, 323 www.jstor.orgLaozi 老子 and James Legge, translator. Tao Te Ching 道德经. New York: Metro Books, 2008. Reproduced: fig. 33Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: pp. 270-278Li, T. June. "Debts of Gratitude." Orientations 49, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 2018): 117-119. Reproduced: no. 119, fig. 3Spee, Clarissa von, Cai Guo-Qiang, and David Stradling. Cai Guo-Qiang: Cuyahoga River Lightning. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 48
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