Streams and Mountains without End

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Streams and Mountains without End

Date
1100–1150
Medium
handscroll; ink and slight color on silk
Culture
China, late Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) - Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
Department
Chinese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
130361

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Streams and Mountains without End was a landmark acquisition of 1953, made just a year after Sherman Lee had returned to Cleveland as curator of Oriental art. He acquired it with the intention to provide "a more than adequate foundation for a fine collection of Chinese landscape painting." This impressive work demonstrates the culmination of stylistic developments in Chinese monumental landscape painting following the Northern Song tradition. It represents a journey through a landscape, making it a fitting metaphor for Lee’s journey of discovery and achievement over a lifetime. The portrayal of the distant lands is rich with details like pavilions, villages, and human activities.

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Credit line
Gift of the Hanna Fund
Provenance
Mid-1300s: Chen Ming 陳明 [active mid-1300s] | 1600s: Wang Changheng 王長恒 [active 1600s] | 1600s: Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691] | 1700s: Zhang Bingqian 張秉乾 [juren of 1729] | by 1736–1911?: Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperors Qianlong, r. 1736–1795, Jiaqing, r. 1796–1820, and Xuantong, r. 1909–1911) | early 1900s?: Ye Gongchuo 葉恭綽 [1881–1968] | early 1900s–before 1950: Zhang Daqian 張大千 [1899–1983] | ?–1950: (A dealer, Hong Kong, sold to Walter Hochstadter) | 1950–1953: (Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1953–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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    Chinese landscape paintings

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